To swim is an act of attention: to the self, and to everything beyond it.

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and person...

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and person...

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and person...

In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and person...

Claire O'Callaghan's Emily Brontë Reappraised - the only new biography of Emily to be published d...

It s 1788 and Shona has travelled back in time and turned up in the Assembly Rooms. Crossing path...

Catherine Simpson believed the hardest chapters of her life were behind her. She had raised two c...

1567, Scotland: no place for a woman. Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate in favour of he...

Poet, novelist and essayist Kenneth Steven takes us on a series of meditative quests in search of...

Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent and short, batt...

Past and present converge as Linda Cracknell doubles back to walk in the footsteps of others.

'A cartoon fried egg. An eye. The tiniest of black holes. It needed a professional eye to be seen...

Nominated for Reading the West Awards 2025

Learn from Britain's leading dragonfly expert how to invite dragonflies and damselflies into your...

'Hearing you say my name was a way of seeing myself as I had never seen myself ... you gave my na...

'A Case of Matricide demonstrates literary talent of the highest order ... few writers can rival ...

From the author of The Zen of Climbing and The Craft of Bouldering, a manifesto for a new approac...

A pocketful of nature poetry in all its green glory from the In the Moment series

A silver sea of gossamer rippling over an upland field, the work of tiny money spiders A woodpeck...

Introducing Detective Georges Gorski...From twice Booker-listed author of His Bloody Project and ...

Never underestimate a librarian.

Laurence Mitchell uncovers the stories that flint has to tell us in this celebratory journey thro...

An anthology of new travel writing by and for rebellious women adventuring through the world.

''A Case of Matricide demonstrates literary talent of the highest order ... few writers can rival...

The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the second international Nature Chron...

Whispers in the Glen

Learn how to create a garden that works both day and night for moths and butterflies, attracting ...

It was obvious to Catherine Simpson from the beginning that there was something different about h...

In this memoir of place, memory and motion, Linda Cracknell reels in the hidden lives of the wome...

A lively, sharp and thought-provoking exploration of the enduring stereotype of the dangerous sin...

An evocative journey through geology and landscape, seen through the eyes of one of Scotland’s mo...

Discover the wonder of marine life seen up close in these joyous and sparkling essays.

Discover the extraordinary in every day with Nature's Almanac, by renowned wildlifeand biodiversi...

Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley draws on more than six decades immersed in wild landscapes to ...

From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply origi...

From the rainforests of Costa Rica to the Balkans and Scotland, Karen Lloyd explores the hidden l...