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…

Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can learn what life was like during the First World WarVintage Children's…

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

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

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

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

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Led by the reliably…

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

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony,…

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

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances…

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…

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

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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…

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

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

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…

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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…

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

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…

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…

Alan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers. In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCKA model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on…

His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever…

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator,…

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,…