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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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An Immense World
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The Almanac 2024
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Otherlands
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Entangled Life
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Other Minds
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Regenesis
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How to Read a Tree
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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Rooted
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Nature's Calendar
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Next to Nature
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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
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Earth
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Bitch
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Mountains of Fire
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Life Between the Tides
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New for 2023

Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life
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How We Fish
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The Simple Life: How I Found Home
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Nature's Calendar
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Earth
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Be a Birder
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Mountains of Fire
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The Hedgehog Diaries
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Deep Blue
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Big Meg
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Windswept
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Footprints in the Woods
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The Bathysphere Book
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A Fenland Garden
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Kings of Their Own Ocean
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Many Things Under a Rock
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The Leaping Hare Nature Almanac
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The Sexual Life of Flowers
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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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How to Read a Tree
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Nature's Calendar
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Life on Our Planet
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The Gardener's Almanac 2024
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The Book of Wilding
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The Owl
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
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Nature Tales for Winter Nights
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The Golden Mole
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The Last Tree
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The Climate Book
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The Last Tree
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Wild Isles
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Wild Light
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Walking Meditations
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Tree Stories
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Great Books You Must Read

A selection of classic paperbacks

The Hidden Life of Trees
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The Living Mountain
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The Shepherd's Life
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Waterlog
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The Seabird's Cry
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H is for Hawk
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Akenfield
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Silent Spring
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The Outrun
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Extraordinary Insects
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Findings
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A Wood of One's Own
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Leviathan
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Around the World in 80 Trees
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Badgerlands
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Where Poppies Blow
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Arctic Dreams
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Wild Signs and Star Paths
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Nature Books for Children 

The best nature books & activities for young naturalists

The Lost Spells
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First Sticker Book Planet Earth
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A First Book of Nature
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RSPB First Book Of Birds
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
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Fungarium
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On The Origin of Species
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Poppy and Sam's Nature Spotting Book
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My Big Book of Outdoors
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RSPB Birds
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Bugs
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Slow Down
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A Wild Child's Book of Birds
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Do You Love Exploring?
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Some Words on Birds

The best bird books

The Seabird's Cry
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H is for Hawk
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Birds and Us
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Birds
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The Swan
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George
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In Search of One Last Song
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12 Birds to Save Your Life
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
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Rebirding
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Swifts and Us
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The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence
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The Genius of Birds
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Featherhood
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A World on the Wing
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The Seafarers
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Life on the Land

The best books on country living

The Shepherd's Life
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English Pastoral
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Wild Fell
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Field Work
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The Way Home
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The Way of the Hermit
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Rural
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The Secret Life of Cows
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Native
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
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My Farming Life
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All Creatures Great and Small
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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess
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A Year on Our Farm
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Springtime at Cannon Hall Farm
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Woodston
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Into the Woods 

The best books on trees and woodland

How to Read a Tree
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The Hidden Life of Trees
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Trees
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Finding the Mother Tree
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The Treeline
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Wildwood
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British Trees
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Collins Tree Guide
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The Heartbeat of Trees
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A Wood of One's Own
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Around the World in 80 Trees
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Gossip from the Forest
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Meetings With Remarkable Trees
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The Wisdom of Trees
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Oak and Ash and Thorn
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The Wood for the Trees
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Out of the Woods
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The Natural Navigator 

The best nature guides and handbooks

RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds
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Insects
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British Insects
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British Wild Flowers
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British Wildlife
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Food for Free
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RSPB First Book Of Minibeasts
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Collins Tree Guide
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British Butterflies and Moths
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Seashore
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Collins Complete British Animals
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RSPB First Book Of Trees
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RSPB My First Book of Garden Wildlife
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RSPB First Book of Flowers
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RSPB Garden Birds
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RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds
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Pocket Nature Wildlife of Britain
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Life on Our Planet
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Planet Earth III
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 33
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The Owl
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The Wit and Wisdom of David Attenborough
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The Life of Birds
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Planting a Paradise
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Habitats
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Deep Sea
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Trees
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Weather Almanac 2024
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Keira & Me
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Vet at the End of the Earth
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Enchanted Forests
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Dispersals
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Entangled Life
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The Tree Almanac 2024
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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

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

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

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