LATE NIGHT:
Secret Wonders of a Disappearing World

2nd March
6pm GMT / 1pm EDT / 10am PDT
7pm CEST / 10:30pm IST

Michael Malay’s Late Light intricately weaves memoir and natural history, exploring themes of migration, identity, and belonging through four overlooked species: eels, moths, crickets, and freshwater mussels. Malay, an Indonesian Australian American, parallels his own immigrant experience with these creatures’ journeys and decline, illuminating their hidden worlds with empathy and meticulous observation. The narrative blends personal reflections with ecological reportage, poetically revealing how unnoticed lifeforms embody larger truths about environmental loss and cultural displacement. Late Light gracefully bridges human and ecological narratives, challenging readers to reconsider their relationships to place, identity, and nature’s unnoticed wonders.

THE SOUND ATLAS:
A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscape and Imagination 

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“A sonic revolution is underway. The expanding field of acoustics is enabling us to tune into a multitude of invisible systems. With this ability to eavesdrop into newfound realms comes a responsibility not only to understand, but to safeguard them—often from ourselves.”

The Sound Atland by Michel and Yuen is a compelling exploration of landscapes, myths, and human connections to place through sound and story. The authors delve into how natural environments shape cultural identities, merging artistic reflection, oral tradition, and ecological insight. Evocative storytelling illuminates forgotten connections between geography, folklore, and acoustic heritage, prompting readers to listen more deeply to the land’s hidden narratives. Rich in sensory detail and philosophical inquiry, the book proposes that understanding a place’s soundscape can fundamentally alter how humans relate to their surroundings, offering a transformative vision of what it means to listen.

ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT

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"Certainly a book of the year for me." SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Cal Flyn’s Islands of Abandonment guides readers into places humans left behind, where nature emerges defiantly and creatively from ruin. Exploring places like Chernobyl’s ghost forests, abandoned industrial zones, and remote Scottish islands reclaimed by wildlife, Flyn highlights nature’s extraordinary resilience and adaptability. Her lyrical prose reveals beauty in neglect, capturing the haunting silence and thriving biodiversity of these abandoned landscapes. Through powerful ecological insights, Flyn invites contemplation of humanity’s ecological footprint, suggesting profound hope in nature’s ability to heal itself and inspiring readers to reimagine our place within the living world.

STRATA:
STORIES FROM DEEP TIME

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"In Laura Poppick’s wise and wonderfully observant Strata, Earth is not a static stage but an epic told in silt, sand, and microscopic fossils. A rare and exhilarating view of our ever-changing planet." Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts

In Strata, Laura Poppick narrates Earth’s epic geological story through four transformative periods: atmospheric oxygenation, great ice ages, terrestrial greening, and the dinosaur era. With vivid storytelling and rigorous science, Poppick takes readers from Minnesota’s iron mines to Australia’s ancient glacial scars, bringing alive the remarkable shifts that shaped life on Earth. Each geological event reveals intricate layers of planetary history, emphasizing humanity’s small but critical place within deep time. Strata’s evocative prose transforms geology into poetic narrative, urging readers to recognize Earth’s vast evolutionary legacy and the profound lessons it holds for our future.

IN GREEN:
Two Horses, Two Strangers a Journey to the End of the Land

Thursday 16th October
4pm GMT / 11am EST / 8am PST
5pm CET / 9:30pm IST

‘An awe-inspiring tale of adventure, grit, and the deep bond between man, horse and nature – a story that will stir the soul of every reader who dreams of pushing beyond the horizon’ Alastair Humphreys, author of Microadventures

In Green is Louis D Hall’s vivid tale of two strangers journeying across remote landscapes on horseback, exploring wild, often forgotten paths of Europe. Leaving mundane work behind, Hall traverses ancient trails from the Ligurian Alps through the Pyrenees to Galicia’s rugged shores. The rhythm of travel awakens a deeper understanding of companionship, nature, and freedom. Hall’s storytelling is rich and insightful, blending gentle humor and poetic reverence for nature’s power. The narrative evokes timeless literary traditions, drawing readers into intimate reflection on how journeys transform the self and our connection to the earth.

MARGIN LANDS

UPCOMING

In Marginlands Arati Kumar‑Rao embarks on a profound journey through India’s fragile and fading ecosystems; from the deep Thar desert to the Sundarban mangroves, from the Himalayas to the relentless Kerala coast. She listens closely to stories held by rivers, lands and communities, weaving narrative photography with poetic reportage. Her writing reveals how climate change and unsustainable development are transforming landscapes and lives, yet also how ancestral knowledge and local resilience persist. The book is infused with empathy and urgency, inviting readers to reclaim a human‑earth relationship grounded in reciprocity wonder and ethical stewardship.

SOMETHING IN THE WOODS LOVES YOU

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An inspiring memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health, and a “poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature.” The Marginalian

Something in the Woods Loves You is Jarod K Anderson’s profound exploration of nature’s capacity to heal emotional wounds and reconnect us with ourselves. Known as the CryptoNaturalist, Anderson sensitively portrays his own journey through depression and trauma, discovering hope and clarity by embracing nature’s mysteries. With lyrical, heartfelt prose, Anderson uncovers magic in simple observations; plants communicating with sunlight, the navigation of bees, the secret languages of bats. The book is a gentle yet powerful meditation on how mindful attention to the wilderness can restore meaning and offer solace, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in their everyday surroundings.

WANDERLAND

UPCOMING

“An intoxicating blend of pastoral travelogue and supernatural lore”- WATERSTONES

In Wanderland, journalist Jini Reddy embarks on a pilgrimage through Britain's hidden landscapes: wells, labyrinths, coastlines and forgotten groves. She listens for land’s stories whispered through ghost maps, sacred stones, folk ritual. Blending travelogue with folklore, Reddy asks how being Other shapes one’s engagement with place. She encounters women who honor the Goddess, communities who cultivate pilgrimage and sites that resist easy mapping. With poetic prose, Reddy celebrates the wild charms of island Britain while unearthing layered histories of migration, displacement and belonging.

SEVEN RIVERS:
A Journey through the Currents of Human History

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‘With world rivers in crisis, this book should be essential reading.’ Nicholas Crane, author of The Making of the British Landscape

Seven Rivers by Vanessa eloquently explores how waterways shape landscapes, cultures, and histories. Vanessa journeys along seven rivers, each serving as a metaphorical thread connecting people, wildlife, memories, and environmental challenges. The narrative is reflective and intimate, richly portraying each river’s distinctive ecology and the human communities intertwined with its waters. Vanessa sensitively illustrates the profound ways rivers influence identity and spirituality, highlighting contemporary ecological pressures threatening these precious lifelines. Seven Rivers poetically conveys a vision where rivers symbolize both connection and vulnerability, inviting readers to reflect on humanity’s deep yet fragile relationship with the living waters that sustain us.

THIS ONE WILD & PRECIOUS LIFE

Upcoming

“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” — ELIZABETH GILBERT

Sarah Wilson explores spiritual anxiety in the Anthropocene and offers a hopeful, embodied response. Citing philosophy, neuroscience, poetry and her own journey, Wilson argues that ecological disease, feelings of despair and disconnection, is widespread yet transformative. She frames it as the "spiritual itch" that calls us toward deeper belonging. Through nature based rituals, everyday wonder, creative action and philosophical reframing, Wilson invites readers to embrace vulnerability, curiosity and interconnection. It is part memoir, part guidebook, encouraging a life rooted in presence, play, and purposeful ecological love.

THE NIGHTINGALE

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“This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird's immortal song - balm for a troubled soul and a glimpse of paradise." JOANNA LUMLEY

In The Nightingale, Sam Lee immerses readers in the mesmerizing world of this iconic yet elusive bird. Blending folklore, music, natural history, and poetic reflection, Lee explores the nightingale’s profound influence across cultures and epochs; from Keats’ poetry to ancient Persian myths. With intimate narrative style, Lee charts its seasonal migrations and threatened habitats, underscoring broader environmental issues faced by migratory birds. The Nightingale is both a lyrical celebration of nature’s music and a powerful call to safeguard declining ecosystems, urging us to cherish and protect the enchanting voices that enrich our shared world.

HEALING GROUNDS

Upcoming

‘A beautiful imagining of possible futures where we work to repair our relationship with the land via anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist practices.’ Jo Armstrong

Liz Carlisle shares stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving ancestral farming systems long suppressed by industrial agriculture. From buffalo restoration to traditional crop rotations, community land trusts to forest stewardship, Carlisle highlights agroecological practices that restore ecosystems, culture, and health. These ground up stories become case studies in resistance and renewal, food sovereignty as climate action. Healing Grounds is at once reportage and call to action, showing how reconnection with ancestral knowledge can heal both people and planet. It centers community led regeneration over technocratic solutions.

FROM WHAT IS TO WHAT IF

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“Big ideas that just might save the world.”—THE GUARDIAN

Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition movement, presents From What Is to What If, a visionary guide to reimagining community resilience. Drawing on successful grassroots initiatives like his hometown Totnes, the book shows how neighbourhoods can become community run enterprises: energy collectives, local food systems, communal housing. It balances realism and optimism, arguing that culture can shift rapidly toward regenerative, collaborative futures. Hopkins frames these changes as creative acts rather than utopian fantasies, small steps that build momentum. He invites readers to ask "what if?" and cocreate alternatives to despair.

THE OTHER SIDE: A JOURNEY INTO WOMEN, ART AND THE SPIRIT WORLD

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'Illuminating in every sense of the word.' JOHN HIGGS

In this blend of memoir and art history, Jennifer Higgie explores women artists whose work intersects mystical practice and spiritual mediumship, from Hildegard of Bingen to Hilma af Klint. She traces how these women communicated with unseen dimensions, challenging patriarchal art history and modern gender norms. Weaving myth, ritual, and personal reflection, Higgie attends to both ancient and contemporary ways of perceiving worlds beyond the visible. The book invites a reconsideration of creativity as spiritual communion, reclaiming overlooked feminist legacies and opening possibilities for art that connects rather than alienates.

BREAKING TOGETHER

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"This book is part of a healing movement that extends beyond what we normally think of as ecological." CHARLES EISENSTEIN

Breaking Together is Jem Bendell’s insightful reflection on navigating societal collapse through compassionate realism. Bendell contends that climate crisis and social instability require an honest acceptance of profound systemic change. Advocating for “deep adaptation,” he emphasizes community resilience, ecological restoration, and meaningful reconciliation. Bendell’s writing skillfully blends personal narrative with academic rigor, presenting collapse not as hopelessness but as an opportunity to forge deeper connections and sustainable ways of living. This transformative perspective encourages readers to confront reality courageously, highlighting the potential for renewal through collective action, mutual care, and radical reimagining of society’s future.

NATURE'S GHOST

Upcoming

"Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today." CHRIS PACKHAM

Award winning journalist Sophie Yeo investigates the ecological legacies erased by human development, what Earth looked like before its diversity was overwritten. In Nature’s Ghosts, she travels across time, from prehistoric megafauna shaped landscapes to forests after the Ice Age, from Dark Age skies to rural farmlands now reclaimed by monocultures. Drawing on ecological history and conservation stories, Yeo explores vanished ecosystems and forgotten species. She uncovers how human absence in places like Chernobyl or the Korean DMZ has enabled ecological resurgence. The book connects these "ghosts" to lessons that can ground regenerative futures.

A FLAT PLACE

UPCOMING

Noreen Masud’s lyrical memoir blends travelogue, literary reflection, and trauma memoir to explore her relationship with Britain’s flat landscapes and her internal emotional terrain. As a British Pakistani woman living with complex PTSD rooted in childhood experiences in Pakistan, she finds mirrored solace and identity in the Cambridgeshire fens, Morecambe Bay, Orford Ness and other open horizons. The "flatness" of the land becomes a metaphor for suppressed emotions, erased histories, and the search for belonging. With poetic prose and intimate honesty, she weaves landscape, folklore and memory into an exploration of identity, trauma, healing and cultural displacement.

NEURODIVERGENT, BY NATURE:
Why Biodiversity Needs Neurodiversity

UPCOMING

“A humane and timely perspective into our relationship with the natural world. Joe Harkness writes with a rare authority and insight. The scales should fall from all our eyes.” - Jon Dunn, author of The Glitter in the Green

In this timely and deeply personal book, Joe Harkness explores the unique connection between neurodivergent individuals (such as those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia) and the natural world. He reveals that 30% of British conservation professionals are neurodivergent and shows how traits like pattern recognition, hyperfocus, sensory sensitivity and emotional empathy can be vital to ecological work. Drawing from interviews, his own ADHD diagnosis in adulthood, and reporting on employment and education barriers, Harkness argues that embracing neurodiversity is not just compassionate but essential for sustaining biodiversity and creativity in conservation. He advocates for inclusive practices and educational pathways.

THE UTOPIANS:
6 ATTEMPTS TO BUILD THE PERFECT SOCIETY

UPCOMING

'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' – Sunday Times

Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world. Anna Neima's The Utopians is an absorbing and vivid account of these collectives and their charismatic leaders and reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism.Dismissed and even mocked in their time, yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. Without such inspirational experiments in how to live, post-war society would have been a poorer place.