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Walking in Ireland by Christopher Somerville 9781529104820
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Walking has never been a more popular pastime and nowhere is more beautiful for walkers to explore than Ireland. In this beautifully written and superbly researched guide, Christopher Somerville... -
The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a... -
Never Eat Shredded Wheat Christopher Somerville 9781444704648
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Bognor Regis...Aberystwyth...Glasgow...Can you place them on a map? Most people can't these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or... -
The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real... -
Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book'The... -
Coast: The Journey Continues by Christopher Somerville 9780563493853 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.47The first book of Coast took us on a sweeping clockwise tour of Britain's marine borderlands, where one type of distinctive landscape gives way to the next. In this companion volume we criss-cross... -
A View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker's Britain by Christopher Somerville 9781909961760
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.75In Christopher Somerville's workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insect corpses, beer glass rings, smears of plant... -
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville 9781804991060
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Somerville's infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history'... -
Meadowland: the private life of an English field by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account... -
Between the Chalk and the Sea: A pilgrim's path along the south coast by Gail Simmons 9781472280305
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'I loved this memoir' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'A whole new way of looking at a familiar landscape' - Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness'Simmons observes the natural world with... -
The Wild Life of the Fox by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens. To love and loathe the fox is a British condition."The fox is our apex predator, our most beautiful and clever killer... -
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to... -
The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great things. Every field should have a... -
The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The perfect gift for nature lovers - The Book of the Owl is a beautifully illustrated small format hardback exploring the legend and history of the owl. A true celebration of this magnificent... -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293635
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £44.85Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using... -
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15__________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESThe Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield... -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293659
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.35Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using... -
Coast: Our Island Story: A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline by Nicholas Crane 9781849904346
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications.And the people... -
A House for Two Pounds by K. Iggulden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir. Growing up amongst the fields, woods and... -
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' (Country Life)... -
The Soaring Life of the Lark by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."Skylarks are the heralds of our countryside. Their music is the quintessential sound of spring. The spirit of... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Journey Into the Serious Business of Having a Laugh Ben Aitken 9781837730063
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'What Aitken writes about fun is worth reading' Mail on Sunday'Irresistible' Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Walking the Bones of Britain'A great book' Simon Rimmer, Sunday... -
The Gentle Art of Tramping by Stephen Graham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'An absolute gem of a book' Alastair Humphreys First published in 1926, The Gentle Art of Tramping is as relevant now as then. Tramping is an approach: to nature, to humankind, to nations, to... -
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs by Peter Wohlleben
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with natureAs soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are... -
Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation's Last, Wild Hope by Tom Moorhouse 9781529176728 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.50A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'particularly enjoyable''Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm and full of fascinating insights into the eccentric world of the field naturalist.' - Isabella... -
Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation's Last, Wild Hope Tom Moorhouse 9781529176728
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'particularly enjoyable''Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm and full of fascinating insights into the eccentric world of the field naturalist.' - Isabella... -
Shitty Breaks by Ben Aitken 9781837730469
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54*AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH*Adios Paris. Hello Wolverhampton.Not everything that glitters is gold - which is why Ben Aitken gave London the cold shoulder and went to Preston instead.Hailing... -
From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-Mile Walk Along the River Thames Tom Chesshyre 9781786852861
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps.He's walking the length of the river from... -
Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District by Tom Chesshyre 9781837992959
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - THE BILL ROLLINSON PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE & TRADITION RUNNER UPJoin travel writer Tom Chesshyre for a Lakeland adventure like no other. Explore towering mountains,... -
The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary by Caroline Crampton 9781783784134 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.88Caroline Crampton was born on the Thames Estuary to parents who had sailed there from South Africa in the early 1980s. Having grown up with seafaring legs and a desire to explore, Caroline is both a... -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 by Sophy Roberts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with...