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Updated March 10, 2026
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Is a river alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2026 From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective...
Albion : a novel
Hope, Anna
Paper Book
The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone - to bury Philip- husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of...
The darkness manifesto : on light pollution, night ecology, and the ancient rhythms that sustain life
Eklöf, Johan
Paper Book
How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb. In our era of 24/7 illumination, an excess of light is a pressing problem. Just about every creature on earth, humans included, operates according to the circadian rhythm. The world's flora and fauna have...
Adventures in volcanoland : what volcanoes tell us about the world and ourselves
Mather, Tamsin A.
Paper Book
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather's obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and...
Hum
Phillips, Helen
Paper Book
From critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Helen Phillips comes an urgent, compelling and deeply human novel that asks: how do we raise our children for a future that is unknown, that we can't see ourselves?
Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet
Ritchie, Hannah
Paper Book
This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and show how together we can solve them. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ** 'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD 'Inspiring' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
The self-sufficiency garden : feed your family and save money
Richards, Huw
Paper Book
Eat homegrown food all year round and save money on your weekly shop by following a simple plan for self-sufficiency. Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialling their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they've worked...
The end of the ocean : a novel
Lunde, Maja
Paper Book
From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to...
1000 hours outside : activities to match screen time with green time
Yurich, Ginny
Paper Book
Join the global movement and challenge your family to match screen time with outdoor time-with hundreds of fun, fresh-air ideas. Did you know that the average child in the UK spends more than 1,000 hours a year in front of a screen? And that outside play can boost children...
The new wilderness : a novel
Cook, Diane
Paper Book
  'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis 'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St....
Cold people : a novel
Smith, Tom Rob
Paper Book
'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer 'A talented storyteller' The Times 'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant,...
Artificial wisdom : a novel
Weaver, Thomas R. (Novelist)
Paper Book
The most surprising thriller of the year. Who would you trust with the future? The year is 2050. In the teeth of a climate catastrophe, the world is left with a drastic solution- one global leader to steer it through the coming apocalypse. The final two...
Camp Zero: A Novel
Sterling, Michelle Min
Paper Book
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A page-turning feminist mystery thriller' Observer 'Distinctive and involving' Daily Mail 'Surprising and satisfying' Guardian Rose wants a better life for herself...
Saturation point
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thriller from the "Master of British SF" Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell. The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of...

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