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From David Attenborough to Robert Macfarlane, here you’ll find our bestselling new nature books and best-loved nature writing classics. Explore our huge selection of nature guides and handbooks or pick the perfect present for a budding naturalist from our range of wonderful nature books for children. Here you’ll also find our range of beautiful nature-themed gifts. And while you’re here do not forget our fantastic range of Christmas cards and festive gift wrap to make your Christmas complete.

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Our Bestselling Nature Books

The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Guy Shrubsole
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An Immense World
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An Immense World
Ed Yong
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The Almanac 2024
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The Almanac 2024
Lia Leendertz
£12.99
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Otherlands
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Otherlands
Thomas Halliday
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Entangled Life
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Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
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Other Minds
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Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Regenesis
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Regenesis
George Monbiot
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How to Read a Tree
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How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley
£22.00   £16.99
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
Sarah Beeny
£20.00   £16.99
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
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Rooted
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Rooted
Sarah Langford
£10.99
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Nature's Calendar
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Nature's Calendar
Kiera Chapman
£14.99
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Next to Nature
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Next to Nature
Ronald Blythe
£12.99
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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
Marianne Taylor
£7.99
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Earth
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Earth
Chris Packham
£25.00   £20.99
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Bitch
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Bitch
Lucy Cooke
£10.99   £9.49
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Mountains of Fire
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Mountains of Fire
Clive Oppenheimer
£25.00   £21.99
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Life Between the Tides
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Life Between the Tides
Adam Nicolson
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Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life
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Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life
Niall Harbison
£18.99   £16.99
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How We Fish
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How We Fish
Paul Whitehouse
£22.00   £19.99
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
Sarah Beeny
£20.00   £16.99
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Nature's Calendar
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Nature's Calendar
Kiera Chapman
£14.99
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Earth
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Earth
Chris Packham
£25.00   £20.99
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Be a Birder
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Be a Birder
Hamza Yassin
£16.99
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Mountains of Fire
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Mountains of Fire
Clive Oppenheimer
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The Hedgehog Diaries
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The Hedgehog Diaries
Sarah Sands
£14.99
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Deep Blue
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Deep Blue
Steve Backshall
£22.00   £18.99
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Big Meg
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Big Meg
Tim Flannery
£16.99   £14.99
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Windswept
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Windswept
Annie Worsley
£16.99
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Footprints in the Woods
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Footprints in the Woods
Sir John Lister-Kaye
£16.99
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The Bathysphere Book
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The Bathysphere Book
Brad Fox
£22.00   £18.99
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A Fenland Garden
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A Fenland Garden
Francis Pryor
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Kings of Their Own Ocean
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Kings of Their Own Ocean
Karen Pinchin
£22.00
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Many Things Under a Rock
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Many Things Under a Rock
David Scheel
£25.00
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The Leaping Hare Nature Almanac
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The Leaping Hare Nature Almanac
Raluca Spatacean
£20.00
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The Sexual Life of Flowers
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The Sexual Life of Flowers
Simon Klein
£25.00
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Planet Earth III
Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon, Michael Gunton
£30.00 £24.99
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Coming soon - 19/10/2023
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This official companion to David Attenborough’s landmark BBC series Planet Earth III is a breathtaking visual journey through some of the planet's most fascinating natural phenomena, species and landscapes.
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

The Almanac 2024
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The Almanac 2024
Lia Leendertz
£12.99
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How to Read a Tree
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How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley
£22.00   £16.99
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Nature's Calendar
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Nature's Calendar
Kiera Chapman
£14.99
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Life on Our Planet
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Life on Our Planet
Dr. Tom Fletcher
£30.00   £26.99
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The Gardener's Almanac 2024
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The Gardener's Almanac 2024
Greg Loades
£9.99
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The Book of Wilding
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The Book of Wilding
Isabella Tree
£35.00
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The Owl
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The Owl
Stephen Moss
£14.99
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
Chas Newkey-Burden
£14.99   £12.99
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Nature Tales for Winter Nights
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Nature Tales for Winter Nights
Nancy Campbell
£16.99
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The Golden Mole
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The Golden Mole
Katherine Rundell
£14.99
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The Last Tree
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The Last Tree
Luke Adam Hawker
£16.99
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The Climate Book
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The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg
£25.00
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The Last Tree
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The Last Tree
Luke Adam Hawker
£16.99
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Wild Isles
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Wild Isles
Patrick Barkham
£25.00
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Wild Light
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Wild Light
Angela Harding
£25.00
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Walking Meditations
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Walking Meditations
Danielle North
£14.99
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Tree Stories
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Tree Stories
Stefano Mancuso
£14.99
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Great Books You Must Read

A selection of classic paperbacks

The Hidden Life of Trees
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The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
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The Living Mountain
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The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
£9.99
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The Shepherd's Life
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The Shepherd's Life
James Rebanks
£10.99
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Waterlog
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Waterlog
Roger Deakin
£10.99
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The Seabird's Cry
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The Seabird's Cry
Adam Nicolson
£10.99
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H is for Hawk
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H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
£10.99
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Akenfield
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Akenfield
Ronald Blythe
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Silent Spring
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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
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The Outrun
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The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
£10.99
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Extraordinary Insects
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Extraordinary Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
£10.99
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Findings
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Findings
Kathleen Jamie
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A Wood of One's Own
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A Wood of One's Own
Ruth Pavey
£10.99
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Leviathan
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Leviathan
Philip Hoare
£14.99
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Around the World in 80 Trees
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Jonathan Drori
£12.99
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Badgerlands
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Badgerlands
Patrick Barkham
£9.99
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Where Poppies Blow
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Where Poppies Blow
John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
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Arctic Dreams
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Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
£10.99
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Wild Signs and Star Paths
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Wild Signs and Star Paths
Tristan Gooley
£9.99
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Nature Books for Children 

The best nature books & activities for young naturalists

The Lost Spells
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane
£14.99
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First Sticker Book Planet Earth
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First Sticker Book Planet Earth
Kristie Pickersgill
£5.99
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A First Book of Nature
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A First Book of Nature
Nicola Davies
£12.99
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RSPB First Book Of Birds
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RSPB First Book Of Birds
Anita Ganeri
£6.99
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
Anita Ganeri
£6.99
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Fungarium
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Fungarium
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
£20.00
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On The Origin of Species
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On The Origin of Species
Sabina Radeva
£8.99
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Poppy and Sam's Nature Spotting Book
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Poppy and Sam's Nature Spotting Book
Kate Nolan
£7.99
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My Big Book of Outdoors
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My Big Book of Outdoors
Tim Hopgood
£16.00
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RSPB Birds
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RSPB Birds
Miranda Krestovnikoff
£12.99
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Bugs
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Bugs
Mike Unwin
£7.99
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Slow Down
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Slow Down
Rachel Williams
£17.99
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A Wild Child's Book of Birds
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A Wild Child's Book of Birds
Dara McAnulty
£14.99
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Do You Love Exploring?
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Do You Love Exploring?
Matt Robertson
£6.99
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Some Words on Birds

The best bird books

The Seabird's Cry
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The Seabird's Cry
Adam Nicolson
£10.99
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H is for Hawk
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H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
£10.99
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Birds and Us
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Birds and Us
Tim Birkhead
£12.99
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Birds
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Birds
Jim Moir
£14.99
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The Swan
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The Swan
Stephen Moss
£12.99
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George
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George
Frieda Hughes
£16.99
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In Search of One Last Song
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In Search of One Last Song
Patrick Galbraith
£9.99
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12 Birds to Save Your Life
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12 Birds to Save Your Life
Charlie Corbett
£10.99
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
Stephen Moss
£16.99
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Rebirding
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Rebirding
Benedict Macdonald
£10.99
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Swifts and Us
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Swifts and Us
Sarah Gibson
£10.99
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The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition
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The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition
J. A. Baker
£12.99
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
Jonathan C. Slaght
£10.99
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence
Steven Lovatt
£10.99
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The Genius of Birds
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The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
£9.99
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Featherhood
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Featherhood
Charlie Gilmour
£8.99
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A World on the Wing
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A World on the Wing
Charles Scott Weidensaul
£10.99
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The Seafarers
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The Seafarers
Stephen Rutt
£9.99
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Life on the Land

The best books on country living

The Shepherd's Life
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The Shepherd's Life
James Rebanks
£10.99
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English Pastoral
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English Pastoral
James Rebanks
£10.99
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Wild Fell
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Wild Fell
Lee Schofield
£10.99
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Field Work
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Field Work
Bella Bathurst
£10.99
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The Way Home
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The Way Home
Mark Boyle
£9.99
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The Way of the Hermit
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The Way of the Hermit
Ken Smith
£16.99
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Rural
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Rural
Rebecca Smith
£18.99
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The Secret Life of Cows
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The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young
£10.99
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Native
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Native
Patrick Laurie
£9.99
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Tom Pemberton
£9.99
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My Farming Life
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My Farming Life
Emma Gray
£9.99
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All Creatures Great and Small
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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
£9.99
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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess
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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen
£8.99
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A Year on Our Farm
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A Year on Our Farm
Matt Baker
£10.99
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Springtime at Cannon Hall Farm
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Springtime at Cannon Hall Farm
The Nicholson Family
£16.99
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Woodston
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Woodston
John Lewis-Stempel
£20.00
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Into the Woods 

The best books on trees and woodland

How to Read a Tree
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How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley
£22.00   £16.99
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
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Trees
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Trees
Alastair Fitter
£6.99
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Finding the Mother Tree
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Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
£12.99
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The Treeline
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The Treeline
Ben Rawlence
£10.99
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Wildwood
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Wildwood
Roger Deakin
£10.99
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British Trees
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British Trees
Paul Sterry
£16.99
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Collins Tree Guide
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Collins Tree Guide
Owen Johnson
£18.99
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The Heartbeat of Trees
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The Heartbeat of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
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A Wood of One's Own
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A Wood of One's Own
Ruth Pavey
£10.99
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Around the World in 80 Trees
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Jonathan Drori
£12.99
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Gossip from the Forest
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Gossip from the Forest
Sara Maitland
£10.99
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Meetings With Remarkable Trees
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Meetings With Remarkable Trees
Thomas Pakenham
£40.00
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The Wisdom of Trees
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The Wisdom of Trees
Max Adams
£10.00
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Oak and Ash and Thorn
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Oak and Ash and Thorn
Peter Fiennes
£10.99
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The Wood for the Trees
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The Wood for the Trees
Richard Fortey
£10.99
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Out of the Woods
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Out of the Woods
Will Cohu
£8.99
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The Natural Navigator 

The best nature guides and handbooks

RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
Marianne Taylor
£7.99
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Insects
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Insects
Michael Chinery
£6.99
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British Insects
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British Insects
Michael Chinery
£16.99
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British Wild Flowers
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British Wild Flowers
Paul Sterry
£16.99
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British Wildlife
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British Wildlife
Paul Sterry
£16.99
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Food for Free
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Food for Free
Richard Mabey
£14.99
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
Anita Ganeri
£6.99
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Collins Tree Guide
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Collins Tree Guide
Owen Johnson
£18.99
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British Butterflies and Moths
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British Butterflies and Moths
Paul Sterry
£19.99
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Seashore
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Seashore
Rod Preston-Mafham
£5.99
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Collins Complete British Animals
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Collins Complete British Animals
Paul Sterry
£19.99
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RSPB First Book Of Trees
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RSPB First Book Of Trees
Derek Niemann
£6.99
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Wildlife
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Wildlife
Mike Unwin
£7.99
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RSPB First Book of Flowers
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RSPB First Book of Flowers
Anita Ganeri
£6.99
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RSPB Garden Birds
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RSPB Garden Birds
Marianne Taylor
£25.00
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RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds
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RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds
Peter Holden
£14.99
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Pocket Nature Wildlife of Britain
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Pocket Nature Wildlife of Britain
DK
£16.99
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Life on Our Planet
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Life on Our Planet
Dr. Tom Fletcher
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Planet Earth III
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Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon
£30.00   £24.99
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 33
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 33
Roz Kidman Cox
£28.00   £24.99
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The Owl
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The Owl
Stephen Moss
£14.99
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
Chas Newkey-Burden
£14.99   £12.99
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The Life of Birds
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The Life of Birds
Sir David Attenborough
£25.00
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Planting a Paradise
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Planting a Paradise
Arthur Parkinson
£22.00
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Habitats
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Habitats
DK
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Deep Sea
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Deep Sea
Jon Copley
£10.99
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Trees
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Trees
Carolyn Fry
£10.99
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Weather Almanac 2024
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Weather Almanac 2024
Storm Dunlop
£9.99
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Keira & Me
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Keira & Me
Noel Fitzpatrick
£18.99
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Vet at the End of the Earth
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Vet at the End of the Earth
Jonathan Hollins
£16.99
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Enchanted Forests
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Enchanted Forests
Boria Sax
£25.00
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Dispersals
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Dispersals
Jessica J. Lee
£16.99
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Entangled Life
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Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
£30.00
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The Tree Almanac 2024
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The Tree Almanac 2024
Dr. Gabriel Hemery
£14.99
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The Waterstones Round Up: September's Best Books

The Waterstones Round Up: September's Best Books

As publishing steps up a notch and eagerly-awaited volumes appear, check out our guide to September's best books.

An Exclusive Q&A with Ed Yong on An Immense World

An Exclusive Q&A with Ed Yong on An Immense World

Ed Yong answers questions about An Immense World, our Non-Fiction Book of the Month for July.

Tim Blackburn on Exploring Nature Wherever You Are

Tim Blackburn on Exploring Nature Wherever You Are

The author of The Jewel Box on how to find and enjoy the wonders of the natural world anywhere.

Keggie Carew on the Image That Inspired Beastly

Keggie Carew on the Image That Inspired Beastly

Keggie Carew reflects on the extraordinary photograph that kickstarted the ideas behind her new book Beastly.

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