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Pocket Nature: Leaf-Peeping
A Year in Story and Song: A Celebration of the Seasons
The Tree Almanac 2025: A Seasonal Guide to Understanding the Woodland World
Bob the Robin: A love letter to Britain’s favourite bird
The Last Hedgehog
What is Life?
Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz
Fifty Things to Do in the Wild
The Country Set: A Celebration of Britain's Best-loved Wildlife
Britain's Birds: A Treasury of Fact, Fiction and Folklore
The Met Office Pocket Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies in Association with the Met Office
The Private Life of the Hare
The World According to Physics
Night Sky Almanac 2025: A Stargazer’s Guide
The Wren: A Biography
Collins Fungi Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms & Toadstools of Britain & Ireland
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction
Kew - The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine
Mushrooms
Edible Mushrooms: A forager's guide to the wild fungi of Britain, Ireland and Europe
Mushrooms
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World
Fungi: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms
Entangled Life (The Illustrated Edition)
Fungarium
Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthro
Roads, Runways and Resistance: From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion
Hegemony How-to: A Roadmap for Radicals
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
Counterpower: Why Movements Succeed and Fail
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
How Change Happens
Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
The Stonewall Reader
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Bee Manual: The complete step-by-step guide to keeping bees
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them
Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz
Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Wild Your Garden: Create a sanctuary for nature
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World.
The Book of Bees
The Wild Bee Handbook: The Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive
The Bee Bible: 50 Ways to Keep Bees Buzzing
Bee Quest
Honeybee Democracy
The Bee Garden: How to Create or Adapt a Garden to Attract and Nurture Bees
Homecoming: A Guided Journal to Lead You Back to Nature
The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary (as seen on the BBC's Springwatch)
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You
Pocket Nature: Cloud-Spotting
Every Day Nature: How Noticing Nature Can Quietly Change Your Life
The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Nature Cure
Bird Therapy
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
Think like a Tree: The natural principles guide to life
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life
RHS Companion to Wildlife Gardening
The Urban Wildlife Gardener: How to Attract Bees, Birds, Butterflies, and More
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
Alan Titchmarsh How to Garden: Wildlife Gardening
RSPB Gardening for Wildlife: New edition
Wild Your Garden: Create a sanctuary for nature
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden: Foods they like, plants they love, shelter they need
Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything
RHS How to Create a Wildlife Pond: Plan, Dig, and Enjoy a Natural Pond in Your Own Back Garden
Rewild Your Garden: Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies
The Wildlife Gardener
Planting for Wildlife: A Grower’s Guide to Rewilding Your Garden
The Ecological Gardener: How to Create Beauty and Biodiversity from the Soil Up
Birdhouses, Boxes & Feeders for the Backyard Hobbyist
Planting for Butterflies: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Flutter
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet
Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Last Chance To See
The Diversity of Life
Climate Change and British Wildlife
The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places
The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man's Battle to Save a Species
The Great Soul of Siberia: In Search of the Elusive Siberian Tiger
The Photo Ark Vanishing: The World's Most Vulnerable Animals
The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World
Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters – and How it Affects You
The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution - And How We Can Fight Back
Every Breath You Take: A User's Guide to the Atmosphere
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
Weather Almanac 2025: The Perfect Gift for Nature Lovers and Weather Watchers
The Cloudspotter's Guide
The Weather Handbook: The Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons
Very British Weather: Over 365 Hidden Wonders from the World’s Greatest Forecasters
Weather: A Very Short Introduction
The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition: How to Understand the Skies
What Does Rain Smell Like?: Discover the fascinating answers to the most curious weather questions from two expert meteorologist
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future
What's The Weather?: Clouds, Climate, and Global Warming
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It
Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
The World Without Us
The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans
Rewilding: Real Life Stories of Returning British and Irish Wildlife to Balance
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
Wilder: How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World
The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth
The First-Time Forager: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Britain’s Edible Plants
The Forager's Almanac: A year of sustainable foraging, wildcraft and recipes
Food For Free
Encyclopedia Of Herbal Medicine: 550 Herbs and Remedies for Common Ailments
Mushrooms
Edible Seashore
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Foraging with Kids: 52 Wild and Free Edibles to Enjoy with Your Children
Hedgerow
The Forager Handbook: A Guide to the Edible Plants of Britain
Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers
The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants: An A-Z of Healing Plants and Home Remedies
The Garden Forager: Edible Delights in your Own Back Yard
The Hedgerow Apothecary: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals
Nettle Cookbook: Recipes for Foragers and Foodies
Wintering: A Season With Geese
The Nature of Winter
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night
Wood in Winter
The Snow Leopard
Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light
The Little Book of Snow
Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
The Idea of North
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Fifty Words for Snow
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
The Winter Hedge: Walks in a Deep Lane
Twelve Trees: And What They Tell Us About Our Past, Present and Future
How Trees Can Save the World
How to Read a Tree: The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales
Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Britain's Trees: A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Literature
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
The Glorious Life of the Oak
Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape
Meetings With Remarkable Trees
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
The Wild Places
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World.
Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2020
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Annihilation
Mythago Wood: The Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
The Vorrh: Book One in the Vorrh Trilogy
The Day of the Triffids
The Bear
The Word for World is Forest: The Best of the SF Masterworks
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Book of Koli: The Rampart Trilogy, Book 1 (shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award)
Lagoon
Rosewater: Book 1 of the Wormwood Trilogy, Winner of the Nommo Award for Best Novel
Hothouse
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
Infinite Ground: ‘A totally original, surreal mystery’ (Jeff VanderMeer) from the Booker Prize-listed author of In Ascension
The Crystal World
State of Wonder
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry
The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World
The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Frontlines: Stories of Global Environmental Justice
Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change
To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers
Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction
The End of Epidemics: how to stop viruses and save humanity now
The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How To Stop It Happening Again
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
The Pebble Spotter's Guide
Subterranea: Discovering the Earth's Extraordinary Hidden Depths
Geology of Britain - An Introduction
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
How to Read the Landscape: A Crash Course in Interpreting the Great Outdoors
Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks
The Science of the Earth: The Secrets of Our Planet Revealed
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
Meteorite: How Stones From Outer Space Made Our World
Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction
The Little Book of Palaeontology: The Pocket Guide to Our Fossilized Past
A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know
The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know
Fantastic Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual Guide to Prehistoric Animals
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World
Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world
My Friend Earth
The Lorax
Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet
National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear: 70 Everyday Ways to Save Our Planet
Climate Change
Clean Up!
Ten Things I Can Do to Help My World
There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
The Trouble With Dragons
Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet
I Love the Earth
The Promise
Seeds Of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World
Dear Greenpeace
RSPB Spotlight Hedgehogs
The Hedgehog Handbook
RHS How Can I Help Hedgehogs?: A Gardener's Collection of Inspiring Ideas for Welcoming Wildlife
The Last Hedgehog
A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog
Hedgehog
Nature Book Series, The: The Hedgehog Book
Say Hi to Hedgehogs!
Hedgehogs Don't Live in the City!
The Very Helpful Hedgehog
The Hodgeheg: 35th Anniversary Edition
The Hedgehog Diaries: ‘The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year’
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle: The original and authorized edition
Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything
RES Insects: Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Insects
Meetings with Moths: Discovering Their Mystery and Extraordinary Lives
The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules
Planet Insect: How insects conquered the Earth
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World.
Insects
Silent Earth: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Much Ado About Mothing: A year intoxicated by Britain’s rare and remarkable moths
The Secret Life of Flies
The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do - And Why We Need to Love Them More
Interesting Insects
Empire of Ants: The hidden worlds and extraordinary lives of Earth's tiny conquerors
How to Read an Insect: A Smart Guide to What Insects Do and Why
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The Story of Art without Men: The instant Sunday Times bestseller
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
We Should All Be Feminists
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller
What Cats Want: An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Cat
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
The Nature of Summer
What It's Like to be a Bird
Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus
A Perfect Planet
The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2025
The Forager's Almanac: A year of sustainable foraging, wildcraft and recipes
Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year
An Insect A Day: Bees, bugs, and pollinators for every day of the year
2025 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Britain and Ireland
Urban Nature Every Day: Discover the natural world on your doorstep
RSPB Birding Year: Seasonal tips and activities to learn about bird behaviour
A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects
A Cloud A Day
The Tree Almanac 2025: A Seasonal Guide to Understanding the Woodland World
The Gardeners’ World Almanac: A month-by-month guide to your gardening year
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year
Weather Almanac 2025: The Perfect Gift for Nature Lovers and Weather Watchers
A Bird A Day
Night Sky Almanac 2025: A Stargazer’s Guide