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**The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World** **Harriet Rix** (B

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06 August, 2025

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Country Life

The answer is blowing in the wind

The Breath of the Gods: The History and ...

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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Winner of 2025’s Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, Raising Hare tells the captivating story of the author’s relationship with a newborn leveret she found abandoned near her home. Dalton brought the

The Critic

Timeless wisdom

Marian Boswall seeks design inspiration in classic and new gardening texts

The Big Issue

Life finds a way

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

BBC History Magazine

2025 books of the year

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the