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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This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to…

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…

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

With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.Though Colette\'s…

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…

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had…

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

• Rok vydání 2019

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

• 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…

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

A captivating, life-affirming memoir of a life in nature that celebrates finding wonder in our world.…

Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. they have seen the countrified lanes…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEDuring the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his…

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

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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…

• Rok vydání 2001

'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…

Accompanies BBC2's TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. The author leads us through the story of music…

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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…

Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man.…

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…

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has…

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