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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.77'And if anyone knows anything about anything... it's Owl who knows something about something.' Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso,... -
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 9781933392813
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €7.62'A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man's efforts can change the future for so many.' Michael Morpurgo, Independent '[This] simple classic may just... -
Edgeland: Walking the South West Coast Path by Sasha Swire 9780349145198
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.67From the bestselling author of Diary of an MP's Wife comes a beautiful discovery of Britain's great coastal pathIn Edgeland, the political diarist Sasha Swire escapes the confines of Westminster to... -
Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times'A story of... -
Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies - considering everything from the... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from... -
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies by Paul Smethurst 9781137457578
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical... -
Tales of a Country Parish: From the vicar of Savernake Forest by Colin Heber-Percy
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28'A delightful book from a gentle, generous spirit.' - SIMON RUSSELL BEALE'Philosophical speculation, country lore, rock music, spiritual exploration, erudite and beautifully written, this collection... -
Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft Lynn Cassells 9781645020707
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.16[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The Telegraph I... -
Chemistry and Other Stories by Tim Pears 9781526623416
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39'As good as any modern fiction you will read this year' Sunday Times, Best new short story collections A wife compulsively digs in her garden. Two brothers, long estranged, reunite for a terse,... -
The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet Sylvain Tesson 9780861543083
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2019 A New York Times Best Book of 2021 'Extraordinarily beautiful... a long last loving glance at the planet.' Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild The snow... -
The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life Sarah Sands 9781780725437
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.98"Inspirational" - The Daily Mail"Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and... -
The Boy and the Mountain: A Father, His Son, and a Journey of Discovery by Torbjorn Ekelund
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.91In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier-a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family,... -
Kinder Scout: The people's mountain by Ed Douglas 9781911342502
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €19.35'An exceptional book.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words, Landmarks and Mountains of the Mind'We made Kinder Scout, not just metaphorically, or metaphysically, not just with our stories and... -
Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE! Yuvan Aves 9781804189856
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING.'Captivating' - New Scientist'A wondrous work of walking, seeing and thinking' - Robert Macfarlane'A startlingly brilliant and moving... -
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm by Lee Schofield
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.48'I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy' - Isabella Tree*WINNER of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing**Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for... -
Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney 9780241966129
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of DublinDublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best... -
The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids by Richard Smyth
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Smyth writes with warmth... -
The Crying of the Wind: Ireland Ithell Colquhoun 9781805331568
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun. An occultist and a... -
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The ones who run our world. by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson 9780008316372
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Extraordinary Insects is a joy' The Times A Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year... -
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith 9780008526313
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES ... -
The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet Sylvain Tesson 9781786079992
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.53Winner of the Prix Renaudot 2019 A New York Times Best Book of 2021 'Extraordinarily beautiful... a long last loving glance at the planet.' Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild The Art of... -
Words to Love a Planet: Over 200 Untranslatable Words to Reconnect Us to Earth Ella Frances Sanders 9781789299007
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.09From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes a beautifully illustrated dictionary that reconnects us to nature, time and place.This heartfelt collection celebrates the... -
Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.06Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard unearths... -
Good Husbandry: Growing a Family on a Community Farm by Kristin Kimball 9781783784707
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70When Kristin Kimball fell in love with a farmer and left behind her life in Manhattan to start a new farm with him in the Adirondacks, she had to learn a lot about farming - and fast. But, it turns... -
The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours Erika Howsare 9781785789472
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road.From the earliest cave paintings to the present... -
The Quarry Wood Nan Shepherd 9781786891624
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and... -
Our Wild Garden by Daniel Seton 9781782694502
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.52What if wildlife wasn't something we saw on nature documentaries, but something that lived in our gardens? When Ali and Poppy hear about wild gardening at school, they immediately start to dream... -
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity... -
From Field & Forest: An artist's year in paint and pen by Anna Koska
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40'The beginnings of a bitter-sweet commission: a mistle thrust's egg, heralding a brief but very welcome return to spring... This year has been in such a hurry, at times almost tripping... -
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 9781841957562 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €4.05Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy, A Scot's Quair. It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of... -
The Wolf Pit by Will Cohu 9780099542353
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. The summers and winters he spent there were full of freedom and light; only after childhood ended was... -
The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.39Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment,... -
Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbours 9781785789465
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.35A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road. From the earliest cave paintings to the present... -
The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk by David Thomson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans - a magical world... -
Tales From A Country Practice by Arthur Jackson 9780751547924
Booksplease Price: €21.63When the phone rings in the middle of the night, Dr Arthur Jackson leaves the warmth of his bed without hesitation. Tending to his peculiar flock of patients - including the blind cobbler with a... -
Silver on the Tree: The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16The six servants of the Light - the Drew children, Will, Bran and the mysterious Merriman - have reached their last, desperate fight against the forces of the Dark. They face one final, daunting... -
Learning To Breathe by Andy Cave
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.48At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.02Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and...