Life sciences: general issues

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.

A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'.

Sunday Times Bestseller

‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster

Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)

Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?

‘Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen’ Sunday Times

‘Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping … Brilliant’ New York Magazine

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees

An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them.

Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic.

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series.

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.

The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.

‘Engaging and wide-ranging … The Age of Cats is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks within Fluffy’ Washington Post

A completely up-to-date introduction to the most common group of bees in Britain.