Christmas 2025: Science & Natural History

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An exhilarating leap into darkness in all its forms, enchantments and history, from the award-winning poet and writer Jean SpracklandDarkness can make the most ordinary activity feel adventurous. Open a door and step through it. You…

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Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times)'You will be better at love after you read this book’…

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'Arthur's writing has taught me everything useful I know about keeping chickens.... Hen Party is a gorgeous object and a blissful read, thanks to his turn of phrase. It is a repository of essential information, written with…

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Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people since antiquity. Many early cultures…

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Translated by Elizabeth DeNomaA beautiful and profound natural history of snow from the bestselling, award-winning Swedish environmentalist Sverker Sörlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic and existential significance of…

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‘To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert’ ROLLING STONEElizabeth Kolbert, one of our most influential writers on the environment and author of the iconic The Sixth Extinction,…

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Is the bionic human just around the corner? ‘Mary Roach offers a fascinating tour of the wonderful world of regenerative medicine.’ TIME, The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025Our bodies regenerate at a remarkable…

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‘The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.’Memory isn’t all that we think it is. Each time we revisit even our most…

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The remarkable conservation story of one of the world’s most iconic animalsDeep in the snowy forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as ‘The Siberian Tiger’. But in the…

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The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places and how our island history is written in stone.This is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places,…

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A full-color album bringing together Ursula K. Le Guin’s poems, cartoons, drawings, and prose pieces about the nearly two dozen cats who shared her lifeIn the wise and witty poems, letters, and drawings gathered here, legendary writer…

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A charming and beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved birds, written by a leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and illustrated by his wife.‘Electrifyingly charismatic’ DAN SNOW,…

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Step into the shadows and listenUsually, you’ll hear a bat before you see it – the gentle flutter of wings, their high-pitched chatter as they dive and roll for insects. Only occasionally do you spot them, a blur against the…

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Although 80 per cent of Britain’s bogs and peatlands have been drained, stripped or irreversibly damaged over the last 200 years, they still contain more carbon than all the forests in UK, France and Germany combined. Often viewed as…

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'A vital and important book' David OlusogaFrom an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choiceAnyone alive today is…

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In a follow-up to the 'spellbinding' Nightwalking, John Lewis-Stempel ventures out into Britain's wildest landscapes in search of a sky full of stars.Walk through Britain’s wild landscapes after dark with two-time winner of the…