Wildlife: general interest

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize

‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times

A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.

‘Evokes the thrill of the chase’ SPECTATOR

‘This book is a revelation’ THE HERALD

‘Baird writes with gusto . . . her remarkable book can guide all of us back towards the light’ SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL

Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.

Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.

Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize

‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times

A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize

‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times

A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize

‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times

A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben

‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

A 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’.

'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this book, I cannot wait to go back' George R. R. Martin

Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones’ Robert Macfarlane

From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.