Natural history
Water Ways
Jasper Winn
Format: Paperback
Most of us in England and Wales live within five miles of a canal - and they are used more today than in their industrial heyday. There is a lot more to canals than just narrowboats!
The Accidental Countryside
Stephen Moss
Format: Hard Cover
The fascinating and remarkably uplifting story of how Britain's wildlife has co-opted the most unlikely corners of our manmade landscape, turning them into teeming havens of (un)natural beauty.
Liquid Gold
Roger Morgan-Grenville
Format: Hard Cover
Two men decide to become beekeepers, learning about nature and about themselves in the process.
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Christopher Reid, illustrated by Elliot Elam
Format: Paperback
T. S Eliot's Old Possum's Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master of poetry Christopher Reid and illustrated by Elliot Elam.
The Animal's Companion
Jacky Colliss Harvey
Format: Paperback
A fascinating, heart-warming, and often humorous historical and cultural exploration of our universal human need for the companionship of animals, from prehistoric times to the present.
Sloths
William Hartston
Format: Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.
Stronghold
Tucker Malarkey
Format: Hard Cover
A book for nature lovers, offering a magical depiction of the last great wildernesses on earth in far-east Siberia.
Nuking the Moon
Vince Houghton
Format: Paperback
Agent Zigzag meets The Book of Heroic Failures and The GCHQ Quiz Book.
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
Format: Hard Cover
A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd, introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Format: Hard Cover
A beautiful, collectible gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson.
