Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL
Marine biology
Weird Is Beautiful: The Wisdom of Octopuses
Think like you’ve got nine brains, feel like you’ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms.
Emperors of the Deep: The Mysterious and Misunderstood World of the Shark
Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution. They are older than trees, have survived five extinction events and are essential to maintaining balanced ocean ecosystems, but how much do we really know about their lives?
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020
The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness.
Collins Modern Classics – Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (Collins Modern Classics)
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
The Book of Eels: Their Lives, Secrets and Myths
What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel.
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection – yet we know hardly anything about them.
Collins Classics – 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Shell Collector
The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Collins New Naturalist Library – Shallow Seas (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 131)
Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities.
The Sea Inside
A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ‘Leviathan’.
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!