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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte 9781789148336
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.04According to legend, the English landscape - so calm on the surface - is really the Devil's work. Cloven Country, now in paperback, tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal... -
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.68A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It... -
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points by Meg Clothier
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $21.06Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to... -
The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.77Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the... -
The Weatherhouse Nan Shepherd 9781782118862
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse... -
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature Patrick Barkham (Y) 9781783781935
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many... -
The Whispers of Rock by Anjana Khatwa 9780349128863
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.58From the sacred stones of Stonehenge to the rose red city of Petra, from towering mountains to the smallest grains of sand, rocks have had a profound influence on human life.Anjana Khatwa, an... -
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange 9780008225148
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'This is the book that has been wanting to be written for... -
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods Lyndsie Bourgon 9781529331097
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.32*Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Project*The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar,... -
The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir 9780711273979
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43WINNER OF THE HOLYER AN GO AWARD 2023 Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the sea and the people whose livelihoods revolve around it, examining... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris 9780571215256 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.70In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging... -
East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Jackie Morris 9781783528868
Booksplease Price: $36.15From the moment she saw him, the girl knew the bear had come for her. How many times had she dreamed of him? Now, here he was, as if spelled from her dreams.This encounter marks the beginning of a... -
Climbing the Walls by Kieran Cunningham
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43When mountains are your salvation, what keep your mental weather calm and free of storms, how do you cope if they're out of reach? After spending a decade restlessly globetrotting in search of a way... -
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure: 'A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson Katherine Rundell 9780571395316
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.30A lavish edition of Katherine Rundell's gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary, featuring three new additions to the treasure trove of vanishing wonders.'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie... -
The Whispers of Rock by Anjana Khatwa 9780349128856
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.48*LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025**A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2025*'In this poetic and heartfelt... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging... -
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011 A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert... -
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell 9780571362509
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.'Rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.'... -
Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain Luke Barley 9781805222231
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.48'A wonderful ramble beneath the boughs' Chris Packham 'Brilliant and highly readable' John Wright 'Spellbinding. A thrilling account' James Fox 'Passionate, knowledgeable and immersive' Tristan... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey Tom Allan 9781788167444
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times 'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written... -
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasures by Katherine Rundell
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures.' Observer'A total miracle.' Max... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. ... -
Understorey: A Year Among Weeds Anna Chapman Parker 9780715655689
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'A beautiful, quiet, achingly tender book' Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a... -
Understorey: A Year Among Weeds by Anna Chapman Parker 9780715655207
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.77'A beautiful, quiet, achingly tender book' Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a... -
Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud Laura Pashby 9781398527010
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'A delight for anyone whose heart thumps at the sight of dawn, dusk and hazy light' Nell FrizzellAt first, I didn't find fog - fog found me. Liminal, transformative and increasingly elusive - far... -
The Horseman: The West Country Trilogy by Tim Pears 9781408876848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.27From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in... -
The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris
Booksplease Price: $36.15A girl loses her beloved brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She embarks on a vital quest with one purpose: to find them and turn them back into boys again.But the task... -
On Time and Water by Andri Snaer Magnason
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18A Guardian 'Top 10 Nature Memoirs' pick 'Poetic and heartful' Guardian Icelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the... -
Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination Richard Morris 9781780222448
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.77A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories... -
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd 9781786897350
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd... -
The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Liz Kalaugher 9781837731398
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.75*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY*Humans, animals and disease. They're all inter-related, so why do we keep ignoring the elephant in the room?It's well known that Covid-19 may have come from a bat, but... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.37WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living... -
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough 9781783788118
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2023 From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative... -
Nature's Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons Kiera Chapman 9781783789610
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Inspired by a traditional Japanese calendar which divides the year into segments of four to five days, this book guides you through a year of 72 seasons as they manifest in the British Isles. ... -
Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past by John Higgs 9781474603485 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.41A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today.'A bravura piece of writing - Bill Bryson on acid' Tom... -
The Water Book Alok Jha 9781472209535
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange... -
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man Fiona Gell 9781474621861
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat and take off the bands from the lobsters' claws. The deepest of blues, they creak over the... -
The Beechwood Airship Interviews Dan Richards 9780008105211
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.89A journey into the headspaces and workplaces of some of Britain's most unique artists, from the co-author of the critically acclaimed Holloway. ... -
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $25.21Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars,...