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The Lost Orchards charts the decade-long journey made by pomologist Liz Copas and cider-maker Nick Poole across Dorset to discover, propagate and make cider from the county's forgotten cider apples, varieties including Yaffle, Best Bearer and Dewbit.

brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey. Combining Manni's tender words with Reuben's powerful illustrations, their story of hope and resilience questions how we care for those we love, and demands that, through troubled times, we learn how to take better care of each other.

Millstone Grit is Glyn Hughes' masterful work exploring the landscapes and culture of the West Riding and East Lancashire, following the course of a 50 mile walk.

Tim Dee follows gulls to rubbish dumps, meets gull-watchers, discovers ancient poets, Victorian novelists and learns how gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world, if we'd only listen.

Mermaids' culture spans eras, continents, art forms. This book is the first history to delve into 3, 000 years of folklore and myth, celebrating this looming and surprisingly rebellious figure of our imaginations.

This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times, reflecting on the misunderstood Goddess, Nemesis.

The paperback edition of the Wainwright Prize shortlisted book, a radical new look at the common swift, a numerous but profoundly uncommon bird by the author of Being a Beast and Being a Human

This book tells the story of Quinlivan's Anglo-Asian family whose extraordinary mythology haunts her own sense of time and place over the course of ten years and seven house moves through England, finally settling in rural Devon with a young family of her own.

Essays on extinction, death, renewal and continuity by the acclaimed writer and poet. Prompted by his own near death experience Burnside reflects on the stories of the auroch, the great auk, and of humanity.

In Beechcomings Richard Mabey set out to uncover our relationship with trees, and specifically the beech, their significance in nature and meaning in folklore.

In this prize-winning biography, Richard Mabey brilliantly recreated the life of the pioneering naturalist and wonderfully evoked White's Hampshire landscape.

In this highly acclaimed memoir the writer Jeff Young takes us on a journey through the Liverpool of his youth, down the back alleys and through arcades, through arcades and oyster bars into vanished tenements.

A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.

In 2017, Simon Moreton's father fell suddenly ill and died. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time there. This innovative graphic novel weaves memory, photographs and illustration to create a powerful memoir.

In March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating in Essex. There they established a working community. Frating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood for individuals and families, and a temporary sanctuary for refugees and prisoners of war. This is the story of the community and its legacy.

The great naturalist on the woods of south eastWales, in collaboration with the woodland trust

This is a radical new look at the Common Swift - a numerous but profoundly un-common bird - by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts throughout the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically.

A strange and beautiful journey through the streets of London and the wilds of Jura.

Joseph Conrad's memoir on the voyages he made in the Golden Age of Sail, a personal meditation on the sea and its meanings by one of the twentieth century's most important novelists.

A photographic celebration of the working lives of smallholder farmers from six continents around the world. these intimate portraits and stories tell a story of resilience, diversity, community, nutrition, feminism and the fight against climate change.