Natural History

Match the upper sides and undersides of the wings of 25 species of butterfly from around the world in this beautifully illustrated matching game. ...

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of t...

An inspiring and practical guide for the modern gardener or smallholder from Britain's great country estates and their kitchens gardens. For anyone...

Bees continue to fascinate and charm us all from novice gardeners and nature-lovers to dedicated environmentalists and today, bees need our help ...

A hymn to the British landscape. From the dramatic hills of the Lake District to the beaches and covers of Cornwall, this richly illustrated book b...

From Sir Winston Churchill to Ellen Terry; Beatrix Potter to Vita Sackville-West: many of the National Trusts former residents were cat-lovers. Cat...

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extr...

Anyone that has a cat will recognise the truth of this tender biography by The Gentle Author. I was always disparaging of those who doted over thei...

Tales of escape and adventure on Britain''s waterwaysIn The Pull of the River two foolhardy explorers do what we would all love to do: they turn th...

Carved from the land above Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag overlooking wooded slopes and weed-tangled plateaus. To many...

Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on t...

Through the Len is a conucopia of National geographic''s best photographs created since 1890 when the Society first started commissioning photograp...

Murray Morgans classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness as large as the state of...

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought e...

Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon ...