Staff Picks
A wondrous seasonal journey through Britain and Ireland’s trees. Forest scientist Dr Gabriel Hemery’s illustrated month-by-month guide – includes tree folklore and traditions, recipes and crafts, key dates, curiosities to spot, notes on wildlife and scientific marvels from the trees that surround us. This is a celebration of all that trees give us – whether ancient or urban – and inspires us to reconnect with nature.
Naturalist Stephen Moss digs beneath the surface of some of our most popular Christmas carols in an ornithological celebration of the Festive Season through twelve fascinating British birds in our history, culture and landscape.
Our book club choice for December – a darkly comic retelling of the entwined stories of Medusa, Perseus and Andromeda. Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods, but is changed – with writhing snakes for hair and her stony gaze, she is desperate to protect her beloved sisters and so condemns herself to a life of shadows. Then Perseus embarks upon a quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon...
A doorstopper of a novel, and one of the Booker shortlisted this year. This one must have given the winner a run for their money because it's a masterpiece. A family falling to pieces saga seen from different members' points of view. Troubled kids, secrets & lies, irony and laugh out loud moments. Loved it.
Newly published and signed by the author just for Goldfinch, Sarah Wishart's YA thriller adventure is a real pageturner. Four friends with apparently nothing in common, except they were all on the school bus that morning. The morning of the crash. The morning they discovered the dead driver’s holdall, containing one million pounds – and a gun.