Wild Isles
This beautifully illustrated overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity of our plant and animal life.
Applied ecology
Food for Free: 50th Anniversary Edition: Unabridged edition
This 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.
Bird Photographer of the Year – Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 7 (Bird Photographer of the Year)
The very best photographs from Bird Photographer of the Year.
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
‘A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps’ DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH
There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Trees (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Winner of the 2022 Marsh Book of the Year Award
A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer.
The Heartbeat of Trees
FROM 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
Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
The RSPB’s Book of the Season
The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK’s reintroduction agenda.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library)
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.
Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of Rebirding
Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library): First edition
Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Mammals in the British Isles (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 68)
Mammals in the British Isles looks at the influences on their numbers and distribution, both now and in the past, examines aspects of their biology with emphasis on function and physiology, and concludes with an account of relationships with man.
Curlew Moon
‘Focuses a razor light on the plight of one of our most iconic birds. Inspirational!’ Tim Birkhead
Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music.
Collins New Naturalist Monograph Library – Ants (Collins New Naturalist Monograph Library, Book 8): Dust Jacket only edition
The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over 60 years.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Ireland: A natural history (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 84)
Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book covers all aspects of the natural history of Ireland, from biological history, geology and climate, through to nature conservation.
Collins New Naturalist Library – The Burren (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 138)
The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain.