Trials of Life
£20.00The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.
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Food for Free
£22.00This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.
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Tree-Spotting
£14.99An illustrated guide to the marvellous and varied world of trees, and a charming walk through the hidden secrets of each of the 56 British species.
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The Earth
£25.00It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms sparking into life in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the dizzying diversity of life today. The evolution of life is a sweeping epic of a tale, with twists and turns, surprising heroes and unlikely survivors. This title beautifully distils this complex story into a meaningful scale. In taking a closer look at 47 carefully selected organisms over fifteen periods in our planetary history, it tells the whole story of life on Earth, and the interconnectedness that unites us through our ecosystems and planetary history.
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Living Planet
£10.99The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.
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The Heartbeat of Trees
£9.99FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER,THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
‘A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science ? Strongly encourages tree hugging for our own, human sake’ Guardian Summer Reads 2021
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Living Planet
£20.00The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.
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39 Ways to Save the Planet
£12.99533 days in the life of a great European writer. Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to the island of Menorca, ‘the island of the wind’, and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over with native plants and fauna, that the 533 days of writing take place. The product is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates, but ‘a book of days’ to retain ‘something of the flow of thoughts, and of what one reads and sees’ with concerns about his cactus garden and suffering hibiscus, his love for Menorca, his thoughts on the world and on the place we humans have in the universe.
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Eating to Extinction
£25.00A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind’s relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times. We live in an age of mass extinction. The earth’s biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever. Industrial agriculture and the standardization of taste are not only wiping out many edible plants, but also the food cultures, histories and livelihoods that go with them. Inspired by a global project to collect and preserve foods that are at risk of extinction, Dan Saladino sets out to encounter these endangered foods.
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Orchard
£9.99By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of Rebirding
Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life.
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DRAGON RIDER (2017 REISSUE)
£6.99Firedrake, a brave young dragon, his loyal brownie friend Sorrel and a lonely boy called Ben embark on a magical journey – with only a curious map and memories of an old dragon to guide them. Together, they set out to find the legendary place where silver dragons can live in peace for ever. But a fearsome enemy is never far behind …