Nature & the Environment

'A blazing mystery . . . tremendous' Guardian'Moving and masterful' Daily Mail'Masterful storytelling' Washington Post'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvellous' Ann Patchett'Remarkable' Harper'sA MASTERFUL NOVEL BY THE PRIZE-WINNING...

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial, it's just an...

You're never too small to make a difference! Learn how to be an eco-warrior with Dave and Greta as they find little ways to make the world better. Dave and Greta can see all around them that climate change ...

From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted writer of Italian Ways and Europa, a classic novel about a man's emotional reckoning in a changed world far from homeFrank's reclusive existence in a leafy part of London is shattered when he is summoned to Milan...

From internationally bestselling, acclaimed author Melinda Salisbury comes a darkly seductive story of murder, betrayal, love, and family secrets in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Here are the rules of...

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer's daughter, James Herriot thinks he's finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy...

A feel-good tale of unlikely friendship, community and learning to live life in the slow lane, perfect for fans of Clare Pooley and Hazel Prior Daniel isn't used to living life in the slow lane. So when he finds himself unexpectedly jobless and back in...

Season two of the hit TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is now showing on Channel 5, featuring Sam West as Siegfried Farnon.'James Herriot's books have had a lasting and profound effect on my life' Amanda OwenThis beautiful Macmillan...

"What Harrison does on every page of Brown Dog is have fun . . . not simply for the sake of delight but because he believes delight is as close to sublimity as humans can get. . . . The great project of life, he reminds us, is to sit still long enough to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION READERS AWARD 'Stunning' Maggie O'Farrell 'Gorgeous, funny and deadly serious' Max Porter 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean Vuong An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538708279Author Lily Brooks-DaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

_______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES) 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH) 'Surreal, daring and compassionate...

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two...

Three women: divided by time, connected by the ocean.Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost.Seventeen-year-old...

"Rapturous, disruptive and quietly, complexly devastating" Eley Williams "This is a time-tumbling, unexpected and arresting novel of apocalypse, upheaval and familial love" Sean Hewitt Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him...

The New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics...

From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian AlpsThe remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who...

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker PrizeOn the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999058876Author Callum AngusFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Metonymy PressPublisher Metonymy PressWeight(grams) 133g

'A tremendous ball of fire hurled into the dark recesses of our world' Ocean Vuong'Radical . . . invites the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery' Tracy K. Smith'Psychotropic, visionary songs of love and defiance' Ralf Webb'Deeply...

Beneath the sea, over millennia, sentient beings await our final mistakes: soon they will make their move. Manfred, an amateur seaweed collector, is convinced that algae are taking over the human race. Haunted by his past, Manfred falls in love with...

A young woman is dead.A very wealthy client needs a favour. You're newly qualified as a lawyer and this could be your big break, so you jump at the chance.The case is about to be closed.All you have to do is talk to a family, ask them to sign some papers...

Including 2022 Caine Prize winning story "Five Years Next Sunday" by Idza Luhumyo, 2022 Nommo Award shortlisted story "Shelter" by Mzobi Haimbe and 2023 O'Henry Prize for Short Fiction winner "Mother" by Jacob M'hango This genre-spanning anthology...

'A wonderfully atmospheric and deeply unsettling novel, full of images so vivid they seem to leap off the page. Worsley's fiction is something to savour' Sarah Waters'A rich, wonderfully uneasy pleasure. Exquisitely written and deeply original, with...

A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, Vets Might Fly,...

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people...

'A wonderfully empathetic exploration of human frailties and our capacity to heal ... brutally truthful and beautifully uplifting' Sophie White'Moving, unexpected and compassionate' Louise O'Neill'A heartfelt reminder of the importance of connection - to...

'Original, timely, terrifying' CHRIS WHITAKER'Brilliant, profoundly unsettling' DAILY MAILWHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT?THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with her mum...

A young woman is dead.Her family are convinced she was murdered, and they know who did it.The case is about to be closed.Everyone else says the evidence speaks for itself: this is nothing more than a tragic case of suicide.Only you can uncover what...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023'Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely transcendent... A luminously told, whole-life story of a young boy discovering how to be his own man...

As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed...Trapped high on a high mountain face during the worst storm in living memory, a young man is forced to fight the brutal winter for his life - moments after his beloved wife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063305427Author Sarah Ruiz-GrossmanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646142668Author Sim KernFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Levine QueridoPublisher Levine Querido

Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when she's made redundant from her job at a publishing house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377186Author Martin HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432897802Author Richard PowersFormat HardbackPage Count 807Imprint Thorndike Press Large PrintPublisher Thorndike Press Large PrintWeight(grams)...

She lives in their dreams. They die in hers.Nothing good can grow in the forgotten town of Bedford. After the closure of the paper mill, the town has become a wasteland. A decade of layoffs has caused a collective bitterness, leading many inhabitants to...

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to...

Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction.Shortlisted for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize 2022.Finalist of the 2022 Firecracker Award in Fiction.Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all...

"A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more, this latest from best-selling author Liu (Face) is a fascinating, irresistible marvel."-Terry Hong, STARRED Library Journal review "Liu's prose is...