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A Trillion Trees
How We Can Reforest Our World
2024 || Paperback || Fred Pearce || Granta Books
A fascinating scientific journey through the world's forests - revealing what they do for us, what we're doing to them, and how we can help nature repair the damage.
A Book of Noises
Notes on the Auraculous
2024 || Paperback || Caspar Henderson || Granta Books
A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.
How to Think Like a Philosopher
Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking
2024 || Paperback || Julian Baggini || Granta Books
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
1491
The Americas Before Columbus
2024 || Paperback || Charles C. Mann || Granta Books
It was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small roaming bands of indigenous people. Here, Charles Mann provides a new, fascinating and iconoclastic account of the Americas before Columbus.
1493
How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth
2024 || Paperback || Charles C. Mann || Granta Books
A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.
The Seaside
England's Love Affair
2024 || Paperback || Madeleine Bunting || Granta Books
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of Country.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
2024 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Granta Books
From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything we think we know about animal intelligence.
Mama's Last Hug
Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves
2024 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Granta Books
A groundbreaking, approachable book on the role of emotions in animal and human societies, from the world-renowned primatologist and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Whose Story Is It?
Essays at the Intersection
2024 || Hardcover || Rebecca (Y) Solnit || Granta Books
Powerful, incisive, inspiring, a fourth essay collection from the bestselling author of the iconic Men Explain Things To Me.
Mountains Of The Mind
A History Of A Fascination
2024 || Paperback || Robert (Y) Macfarlane || Granta Books
'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman