‘A new understanding of history’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%
‘If you think progress will take us to the promised land, this is a must-read’ Alpa Shah, author of The Incarcerations
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Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of our oldest wooden artifacts can help us to understand the many woodlands that have disappeared from our landscapes.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘The bothy embrace is addictive’ ADAM NICOLSON
‘Will have you reaching for your boots’ CAL FLYN
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*A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS*
‘Both dynamite and medicine’ AMY-JANE BEER
‘It couldn’t be more relevant’ JAMES O’BRIEN
‘Timely and rousing’ THE TIMES
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A beach-goer’s pocket companion for lazy days on the shore, or for the armchair beachcomber recalling the feel of sand between their toes. Noticing and collecting shells is an irresistible and accessible activity for pretty much everyone who goes to the beach, young or old, specialist, or first-timer.
‘A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside’ Sunday Times
‘Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground is the brilliant result’ Daily Telegraph
‘Very funny. Acutely observed. An attempt to look beyond the usual clichés of country life’ Observer
‘This is some of the best English prose of our time’ SPECTATOR
‘A feast for mind and soul’ ISABELLA TREE
‘A marvellous and revelatory guide to our native bird-life’DAILY MAIL
Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild
‘A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details’ THE TIMES
‘If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky’ TOM HOLLAND
‘An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR
Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize
Exmoor is one of only three large moorlands in southern England. Together with Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, they have long been an inspiration for field naturalists of all descriptions. It seems appropriate, therefore, that this volume should bring the inspiration and the particularities of place together and allow the landscape of Exmoor to shine.
‘Mind-shifting, heart-lifting’ ISABELLA TREE
‘Inspiring and essential’ ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS
‘As entertaining as it is enlightening’ INDEPENDENT, ★★★★★
‘A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passion’ TRISTAN GOOLEY
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist’s canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.
A definitive account of the bright-eyed assassins of the British countryside.
A month-by-month celebration of the best of Countryfile magazine as well as an illustrated overview of the beauty and the drama of a year in the countryside.
