The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. With…

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There were Smooth Newts, mottled like the fighter planes in the comics he read, and the longed-for Great Crested Newt, with…

With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and…

From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the TaleIn 2003 Dave Goulson…

Plum returns with a charming book of doggy wisdom to help you through life's peaks and troughs. Her first book, Plumdog,…

\'Exquisite...should be read by every gardener in the country\' ObserverThe Garden Jungle is about the wildlife that lives…

'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearOur lives depend on shipping but it is…

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A FRANK, FUNNY AND EMPOWERING CELEBRATION OF FEMALE PLEASUREAn orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it…

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian…

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Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain. \'If you\'ve never read Mark…

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'Essential reading for anybody who cares about the future' Henry Marsh, *New Statesman Books of the Year*A radical…

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of…

• Rok vydání 2017

Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017 Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss travels the length and…

From redressing the pay gap through a semi-legal sponsorship scheme to surviving a leadership course where you're forced to…

`An unbelievably inspiring book' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesDid you know that pigs frequently throw…

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? For parents helping with their children's homework, casual theatre-goers who want to…

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The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of…

Homework for Grown-Ups covers everything from algebra and prime numbers, English grammar and the Big Bang theory, and an…

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'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New…

In You are Awful, Tim Moore drives his Austin Maestro round all the places on our beloved island that nobody wants to go to…

One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk…

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Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times'There is no doubt that Moss's book, with its charming cover and quaint…

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite…

Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport.And then there's…

Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long. There is one place on earth where it is…

Since 1972 Mark Cocker has been a member of a community of obsessional people, almost all male, who sacrifice most of their…

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river,…