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AN FT BEST SUMMER BOOK Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize‘Quite magical... A book that will refresh your soul.’ Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive FarmTHE TRUE STORY OF A COURAGEOUS LEAP INTO A NEW LIFE___In 2000, burnt out by city living, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia took a bold step: they left everything behind and moved to Prespa in northern Greece – a remote landscape of vast lakes, snow-capped mountains and stone villages. Here, their seasons were punctuated by unforgettable encounters, including nesting summer pelicans, a springtime stare-down with a bear and a winter meeting with fourteen tiny birds above a frozen doorway. Lifelines is the story of beginning again – of making a home in an unfamiliar place, finding community across borders and discovering belonging in the rhythms of a new land. It is a luminous reminder to seek life at its fullest. ___‘An inspiring call to throw caution to the wind … Lifelines is not just beautiful, it is quite literally encouraging. It will make you brave.’ Observer‘This remarkable book describes Julian and Julia's odyssey as they meet others on similar quests to find home, be they bears, pelicans or humans.’ Lee Durrell, MBE‘I was enthralled and won't be the only reader making travel plans.’ Gaia Vince

Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg.  It’s time to tell a new story of life on Earth.  ‘Jules Howard’s egg’s-eye view of evolution is dripping with fascinating insights’ ALICE ROBERTS‘So much passion and poetic prose' BBC Radio 4, Inside Science If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind’s eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blue eggs of the blackbird? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.  In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggs would evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas.  Whether belonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objects that have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions and honed by natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic story of their role in the tapestry of life can be told. ‘In a book that brilliantly evokes past eras, Howard provides a new perspective on the history of life on Earth.’ The Mail on Sunday

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025?'Reading Hannah’s story, compellingly told, you will fall in love with these increasingly endangered birds, true masters of the sky.’ Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE ?The inspirational story of a bird lover who became a nature-warrior in a David v Goliath battle to save swifts from extinction.  Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is to change the law and make ‘swift bricks’ mandatory so that the birds who nest in our walls will have a future in Britain. Nature Needs You delves into the highs and lows of trying to win hearts and minds, grab the news agenda with her naked Feather Speech, win Caroline Lucas and Lord Zac Goldsmith’s support, navigate meetings with Secretaries of State and debates in the Houses of Parliament, survive the trolling and midnight self-doubt and raise a petition with the requisite 100,000 signatures for a Parliamentary debate. At stake, with a decline in numbers of over 60% since 1995, are the birds who have become our symbol of summer, the swifts screaming in the skies above us. Steeped in love for the wild, by a talented writer, Nature Needs You is a clarion call to save the nature on our doorsteps and to prove that passion can be a superpower in bringing change to nature-depleted Britain. Raw, funny, self-deprecating and unstoppable in turn, this is nature writing with the pace of a thriller. Hannah is now knocking at the door of the new Labour Secretary of State for Housing, in the hope that, where Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove failed, Angela Rayner and Matthew Pennycook will save our swifts. ‘I applaud Hannah’s book; her inner steel and her sassy take on conservation are inspiring. I am so heartened that there are courage-driven young women holding nature in the light so that it WILL be seen by the powerful.’ Mary Colwell, author of Curlew Moon ‘This book might make you scream. It is the story of a fight that started with a promise to a small bird. It is about bird spirit and the spirit of a very singular human. Hannah Bourne-Taylor has a searing eye for both truth and charlatans.‘ Keggie Carew, author of Beastly ‘A wonderful book that will make you furious, hopeful and inspired by turns. Buy it, read it and then become an activist yourself.’ Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of Shearwaters

*AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 LOOSE ENDSA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOKLoveReading’s Best Books of the Year 2025__ A deliciously nourishing memoir of food, family and finding love…‘A world-spanning love story.’ Rebecca May Johnson‘A wonderfully heartwarming memoir with lots of foodie insights.’ Rachel Khoo----- After a thirteen-year relationship ends, food journalist Candice Chung find herself losing both her first love and her favourite dining partner. So when her retired Cantonese parents volunteer as her new plus-ones, she must decide whether to keep the peace – or finally confront the distance that’s grown between them. As a new romance stirs and old wounds heal, Candice begins to learn that some truths can’t be spoken – only tasted . . . This is a deliciously nourishing story of food, family and finding new love. __‘A touching, poignant love story… so vivid and flavoursome.’ Huma Qureshi, author of How We Met‘Packed with heart, humour, and those tender moments around a dinner table.’ Angela Hui, author of Takeaway‘Will undo anyone whose love language is food.’ Tara Wigley, co-author of Ottolenghi SIMPLE‘A real and delightful surprise – and also very funny.’ Ella Risbridger, author of Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For)

*Longlisted for the 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights'Brilliant and hugely timely.' Caroline Lucas, author of Another England‘Remarkable ... An impressive telling of the story of our times.’ Lyse Doucet'Brings such a human and humane perspective to an issue that is politicised and toxic.’ Guardian___What is it like to arrive on our shores with nothing and be pushed to the margins of societ? ho stands to gain from an asylum system that is intentionally hostile? Anywhere But Here is a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all. Each year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but collapsed. With unique and unparalleled access, award-winning journalist and former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. We follow the under-resourced coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. The decision-makers hired from McDonald’s and Aldi to conduct ‘life and death’ asylum interviews. The immigration barristers securing last-minute reprieves for deportees who narrowly escaped death. And we step inside the Home Office corridors as ministers and advisors respond to emerging crises and scandals, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan. At its heart are the stories of war-torn arrivals, lone teenagers and trafficked women attempting to settle in cities, towns and villages across the UK. We travel to meet them, exploring where they have fled from and why, and the response of local communities to their new neighbours. Situated on the beaches and the ports, in the hotels, the courtrooms and the detention centres where the futures of those affected unfold, this is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues and shocking injustices of our time.

‘Opens our eyes to how the world is changing.’ Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of GeographyRead this to understand how the global economy is going green – and how it will affect your wallet The world is changing fast. Money is pouring into the green revolution as it sweeps across our globe. This isn’t just economics – it’s Environomics. Across industries such as energy, food, fashion, technology, manufacturing and finance, businesses are innovating; governments are taking action; technology is advancing; commercial opportunities are emerging; and our long-formed consumer habits are shifting – sometimes at a dizzying pace. But what exactly is happening, how quickly, who is driving it all – and what does it mean for u? n this fast-paced and eye-opening book, award-winning broadcaster and economist Dharshini David follows the course of an average day to tell the real story of the green developments taking place all around us, from the clothing we wear and the food we eat to the way we consume energy. Full of surprising facts and new perspectives, this book shows that what we do now will affect our everyday lives for decades to come. Economics helps us to understand our world. Environomics is going to shape our future. Environomics follows the course of an average day to explore the green economic changes, challenges and opportunities that face us all. ·        If you’ve ever wondered what green issues really mean for your day-to-day life, this book is for you. From BBC Chief Economics Correspondent Dharshini David, author of The Almighty Dollar‘A much needed blend of optimism and realism' Brett Christophers, author of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet‘An important yet accessible addition to the green debate.’ Country & Town House

'A beautiful beacon lighting the way... A gorgeous guide to embodying kindness.' Suzy Reading, author of Self-care for Tough Times ‘Extraordinary … I loved it. It was the ray of sunshine I didn’t know I needed’ The SunOverwhelmed by the constant flow of bad news, Bernadette Russell felt trapped, desperate for something to change. Then, a chance encounter sparked a question that would transform her life. ?What if one small act of kindness, every single day for a year, could ignite a light in the darknes? n Conversations on Kindness, Bernadette embarks on an extraordinary 366-day journey. From moments of unexpected joy and surprise to the times when her well-intentioned kind acts demand much more than she'd bargained for, this is a story of discovery and profound connection. Along the way, Bernadette explores the deeper possibilities of kindness. In conversations with scientists, artists, activists and academics, it becomes clear that kindness is a powerful driver for healing, understanding and significant positive change – especially when life feels at its hardest. Conversations on Kindness is a warm, often funny, heartfelt immersion in the power of kindness to bring us back to ourselves, to each other and to change the world. ___ Praise for How to Be Hopeful  ‘The perfect book for troubling times. The ideas and exercises will soothe your soul.’ KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering  ‘Delightful and informative.’ JULIA SAMUEL, author of Grief Works

*Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2025LoveReading’s Best Books of the Year 2025From the author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking___Can one new mother rediscover a path back to the hills and to freedom? ‘Left me itching to lace up my boots and follow the call of the path.’ Laura Pashby, author of Chasing Fog___ In the wake of the complete upheaval of becoming a mother, walker Kerri Andrews finds herself carrying the idea that maybe the hills are no longer for her.  Yet, what she soon discovers are tales of mother-walkers that have long been neglected or hidden away. And with it a sense that there may be a way back into the mountains for her too.  So Kerri begins small, joined on walks on beaches and in cities by women who have also experienced profound changes to their sense of themselves and their bodies. And as Kerri’s journeys become increasingly ambitious – the valleys and peaks of her past beckoning – it becomes clear that these wild places could be hers once more. That there may indeed be a way back to the mountains, and to freedom. ___ ‘Bold, brave’ Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal ‘Powerful and unflinchingly honest’ Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept

*From the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings comes a beautiful and unexpected memoir of motherhood and wildness – ‘ASTONISHING’ (Sunday Times)___ ‘Magnificent, utterly refreshing’ LUCY JONES, author of Matrescence  When Helen Jukes becomes pregnant, the manuals she reaches for feel hollow; the well-meaning advice of friends oddly suffocating. With her body transforming, she’s left with urgent, unanswered questions.  So she looks elsewhere. Beyond humans, and into the overlooked worlds of polar bears, bonobos, burying beetles and a host of other creatures whose ways of mothering look very different to our own.  What she finds is both unsettling and electric: an expansive reimagining of care, instinct and what it might mean to be a mother – animal and human – today___ ‘Joyful and expansive’ Guardian ‘Astounding . . . Read it to feel the slow detonation of mind-blowing understanding.’ Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters ‘Blows societal ideas about parenthood wide open.’ Marchelle Farrell, author of Uprooting ‘Honest and unflinching’ Stylist ‘A book to devour.’ Joanna Wolfarth author of Milk

*THE TIMES – ‘The best historical fiction books of 2025’‘A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime’ Antonia Senior, The Time? he Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War.  ‘In this vivid and engaging novel of war and friendship, Barney Campbell shows us once again that he is a natural writer. This is a novel of men at arms of the highest quality’. Alexander McCall SmithEdward Salter is a shy, reserved lawyer whose life is transformed by the outbreak of war in 1914. On his way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign, he befriends the charming and quietly courageous Theodore Thorne. Together they face the carnage and slaughter, stripped bare to their souls by the hellscape and only sustained by each other and the moments of quiet they catch together. Thorne becomes the crutch whom Edward relies on throughout the war. When their precious leave from the frontline coincides, Theo invites Edward to his late parents’ idyllic estate in Northamptonshire. Here Edward meets Thorne’s sister Miranda and becomes entranced by her. Edward escapes the broiling, fetid charnel-house of Gallipoli to work on the staff of Lord Kitchener, then on to the Western Front and post-war espionage in Constantinople. An odd coolness has descended between Edward and Theo. Can their connection and friendship survive the overwhelming sense of loss at the end of the war when everything around them is corrupted and destroyed? The Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking, sweeping portrayal of friendship and its fragility at the very limits of humanity. 'Visceral, intensely moving and illuminating’ Country Life Magazine