Science and nature books
Top 10 nature memoirs | Sarah Thomas
Moving on from writing that holds the natural world at arm’s length, authors have begun using intimate life to show nature as a protagonist in itself
Sarah Thomas
28, Sep, 2022 @9:40 AM
An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford review – Darwin’s outriders
A sprawling history of the illustrious Huxley family charts the evolution of science and society over 200 years
Stephen Buranyi
22, Sep, 2022 @6:30 AM
Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx review – where have all our wetlands gone?
In beautiful prose, the Pulitzer-winning US novelist offers a powerful indictment of human complicity in environmental destruction
Rohan Silva
19, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM
Landlines by Raynor Winn review – back on the trail
The author of The Salt Path returns with another heartwarming odyssey, this time on one of the wildest walks in Britain
Amy-Jane Beer
15, Sep, 2022 @6:30 AM
In brief: Love Untold; The Modern Bestiary; The Red Planet – review
Ruth Jones’s Welsh generational saga, Joanna Bagniewska’s real-life fantastic beasts and Simon Morden’s Mars exploration
Hannah Beckerman
11, Sep, 2022 @3:00 PM
Wainwright nature writing prize goes to ‘inspirational’ Goshawk Summer
Wildlife cameraman James Aldred’s diary of time spent observing a family of goshawks in the New Forest takes top honour
Sarah Shaffi
07, Sep, 2022 @4:30 PM
The big idea: why relationships are the key to existence
From subatomic particles to human beings, interaction is what shapes reality
Carlo Rovelli
05, Sep, 2022 @11:30 AM
Are you a busybody, a hunter or a dancer? A new book about curiosity reveals all
Twin academics Perry Zurn and Dani S Bassett fought to forge idiosyncratic paths through academia… then put that knowledge to use in a seven-year study of how we learn
Amelia Tait
04, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
High: A Journey across the Himalayas by Erika Fatland
An anthropologist establishes a unique rapport with the people she encounters on this unromantic trek through the mountains
Anna Fleming
02, Sep, 2022 @6:30 AM
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death review – humility lessons from Henry Marsh
The ever candid neurosurgeon reflects on his own mortality, as well as the failings of his profession, in this enthralling third volume of memoirs
Colin Grant
29, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM
Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton: ‘Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos’
As her new book on the origins of the universe is published, the Albanian-American scientist explains how her work on multiverse theory influenced Stephen Hawking
Killian Fox
27, Aug, 2022 @1:00 PM
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
Bad manners in the jungle; a magical inner-city tree; galactic danger; a conservationist call to arms; plus the best new YA novels
Imogen Russell Williams
26, Aug, 2022 @11:00 AM
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