Nature Writing Books
Nature writing is at the core of Sherlock & Pages and we curate an extensive list across sub-categories including ‘trees’, ‘birds’, ‘ocean stores’, ‘plants & fungi’ and much more. From the conception of the shop Luke and Agathe wanted to highlight the incredible wealth of British writers in this emerging category, whilst also making room for those special voices from around the world who draw our hearts towards a culture of caring for nature. From Robert MacFarlane to Nan Shepherd, Kathleen Jamie and Robin Wall Kimmerer, there is so much to be learned and felt from writers who seek to reconnect us with the natural world. As a conservation bookshop, it’s central to our mission to get the right books in the right hands to inspire change in the world. And as we say, Long Live the Hedgerows.
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Wintering : The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Delve into Katherine May's 'Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times', a Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. This masterful exploration of life's fallow periods offers a profound insight into the art of self-care and rejuvenation...- £12.99 GBP
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The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot
A Sunday Times bestseller and Samuel Johnson Prize nominee, 'The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot' is a masterful exploration of Britain's ancient pathways by the acclaimed author of 'Underland', 'Landmarks', and 'The Lost Words'. Robert Macfarlane, renowned for his eloquent observations of nature,...- £12.99 GBP
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The Salt Path
Bring nature into your home with the inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decadeFROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'This is what you need right now to muster hope...- £10.99 GBP
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Wilding : The Return of Nature to a British Farm
`A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope' - Chris PackhamWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society / White Horse Book Shop Award for Nature...- £10.99 GBP
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A Natural History of the Hedgerow : and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for...- £12.99 GBP
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The Living Mountain : A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly...- £14.99 GBP
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Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year
Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily anthology brings you the very best of nature writing from around the world and through the centuries, from Pliny the Elder's...- £20.00 GBP
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Islands of Abandonment : Life in the Post-Human Landscape
THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR...- £9.99 GBP
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Salt On Your Tongue : Women and the Sea
An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through...- £10.99 GBP
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Meadowland : the private life of an English field
_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John...- £10.99 GBP
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Sea Room
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis....- £10.99 GBP
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Landlines : The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCEJoin Raynor and Moth on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from Scotland to the South West Coast Path in this powerful account of our country's land, and the people...- £10.99 GBP
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Holloway
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock. In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin - author of Wildwood - travelled to explore the holloways of South...- £10.99 GBP
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England : A Natural History
England's landscape is iconic - a tapestry of distinctive habitats that together make up a country unique for its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Concentrating on twelve habitats, John Lewis-Stempel leads us from estuary to park, chalk downland to woodland , river to...- £25.00 GBP
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Kew - Witch's Garden : Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine
The Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants - from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil...- £14.99 GBP
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The Hidden Ways : Scotland's Forgotten Roads
Embark on a captivating journey through Scotland's forgotten trails and byways with Alistair Moffat's The Hidden Ways. This mesmerizing non-fiction travel book transports readers along the ancient Roman roads once trodden by mighty armies, the warpaths etched by warriors of old, the winding pilgrim...- £10.99 GBP
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The Fens : Discovering England's Ancient Depths
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's...- £9.99 GBP
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The Flow : Rivers, Water and Wildness - WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'Unparalleled.' THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A tour de force.' GUY SHRUBSOLE'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM'Lyrical, wholehearted and wise.' LEE SCHOFIELD'A knockout. I loved it.' MELISSA HARRISON'Honest, raw and moving.' SOPHIE PAVELLE'An extraordinary...- £10.99 GBP
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Raising Hare : The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in...- £18.99 GBP
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The Wild Places
A wonderful evocation of Britain's natural beauty and a reminder of our need to connect with the wilderness' The Times Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? From forest to...- £10.99 GBP
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Akenfield
The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published...- £9.99 GBP
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Underland : A Deep Time Journey
A beautiful gift for the intrepid explorer in your life by one of the most acclaimed and beloved nature writers working today, the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER...- £12.99 GBP
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The Wild Silence : The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
The incredible Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and- 80-week Sunday Times bestselling The Salt Path'Beautiful, a thrill to read . . . you feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in...- £10.99 GBP
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Windswept : Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands
`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 A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or...- £10.99 GBP
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Weird Woods : Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach...- £9.99 GBP
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Why Women Grow : Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPION AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONTHE TIMES / WATERSTONES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA RHS TOP 10 GARDENING BOOK TO GIFT THIS CHRISTMASA GARDENS ILLUSTRATED BEST BOOK FOR...- £17.99 GBP
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The Lost Rainforests of Britain
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile `If anyone was born to save Britain's rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole' Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize Temperate rainforest...- £10.99 GBP
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Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE...- £12.99 GBP
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Under the Stars : A Journey Into Light
________________________'A beautiful and luminous love letter to the night sky.'�- Julian Hoffman, author of�IrreplaceableMoonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other forms of light begin to reveal themselves. In this beautifully written exploration of the...- £10.99 GBP
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The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2022`Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently' Robert Macfarlane'A remarkable and truly radical work, loaded...- £9.99 GBP
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A Philosophy of Walking
A Philosophy of Walking invites you to rediscover the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other. In this profound exploration of walking, French philosopher Frédéric Gros illuminates the many ways this seemingly mundane activity can connect us to the sublime....- £9.99 GBP
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The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate
Sunday Times Bestseller `A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben...- £9.99 GBP
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge : A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel
COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE `This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit' Adam Nicolson Over the course of...- £10.99 GBP
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Walking The Invisible
In "Walking the Invisible," Michael Stewart takes readers on an immersive journey through the rugged and windswept landscapes that inspired the legendary works of the Brontë sisters. This captivating hybrid memoir seamlessly interweaves nature writing with literary exploration, inviting you to retrace the footsteps...- £9.99 GBP
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England's Villages : An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEAEngland's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the...- £10.99 GBP
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George : A Magpie Memoir
A literary gem lauded as Oprah Magazine's Book of the Year 2023, this enchanting memoir has been hailed as 'the literary romance of the year' by Oprah herself. Pulsating with an untamed wonder for the natural world, this narrative is as wild and unpredictable...- £10.99 GBP
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Sailing Alone : A History
Sailing Alone by Richard J. King is an extraordinary literary work that deserves a place among the true masterpieces of maritime literature. Peter Nichols, the acclaimed author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen, rightfully declares, "Sailing Alone belongs on the very small...- £12.99 GBP
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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf : The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them
Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024 for Nature Writing?????�The Telegraph`One of the most remarkable figures in British conservation.'�The Observer`There have been several books on the fate of British wolves, but this is the best.'�The Spectator`Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of...- £20.00 GBP
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Elderflora : A Modern History of Ancient Trees
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History`A masterful blend of natural and human history . . . Farmer's Elderflora aren't just amazing old organisms, but a backdrop against which human drama, hubris and decency play out.' - New Scientist`Fascinating' - The ObserverCombining...- £10.99 GBP
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Rooted : How regenerative farming can change the world
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'An honest look at the farming life today. Raw, earthy and inspiring' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'A beautifully written, incredibly timely book' - Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless NightsWhen barrister and...- £10.99 GBP
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Land Healer : How Farming Can Save Britain's Countryside
Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it. Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As Conservation Manager at Holkham...- £12.99 GBP
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Bothy : In Search of Simple Shelter
In the rugged landscapes of the British Isles, where towering peaks meet windswept valleys, a network of humble shelters known as bothies dot the wilderness. These simple stone structures, often tucked away in remote corners, have become sanctuaries for adventurers and nature lovers seeking...- £16.99 GBP
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Nightwalking : Four Journeys into Britain After Dark
Step into the shadows and discover the secret world that awakens after sunset. In "Nightwalking," acclaimed nature writer John Lewis-Stempel invites you to experience the enchanting beauty of the British countryside at night. Through four mesmerizing journeys, one for each season, you'll be guided...- £9.99 GBP
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The Secret Life of the Owl : a beautifully illustrated and lyrical celebration of this mythical creature from bestselling and prize-winning author John Lewis-Stempel
The perfect gift for nature lovers - The Book of the Owl is a beautifully illustrated small format hardback exploring the legend and history of the owl. A true celebration of this magnificent creature - its natural powers and its mythical glory. Fans of...- £10.99 GBP
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The Place of Tides
From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a spellbinding story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian islandWe are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote...- £22.00 GBP
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How to Read a Tree : The Sunday Times Bestseller
THE LATEST GUIDE TO THE HIDDEN MEANING OF NATURE FROM THE NATURAL NAVIGATOR, TRISTAN GOOLEY Readers are LOVING How to Read a Tree:'I could write a book about this book. After the first five pages I knew my forest hiking was already permanently changed....- £10.99 GBP
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