Here is your reading list for 2025. I am including books I have recommended in the past and one or two extra for this Christmas. They are all fascinating, important and really readable. So if you haven't read any of them, do get some and enjoy them, I wish you all a very Happy Christmas.
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, a wonderful exploration of three rivers and the awarding of rivers a life of their own.
An Immense World: Ed Yong, how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us and how other animals experience our world.
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: Caspar Henderson. One of the most remarkable books on the wonders of the natural world.
Entangled Life: Merlin Sheldrake. How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures.
Thirst, in search of fresh water: with 21 pieces about water and a foreword by Robert Macfarlane, to go with the exhibition on water at the Wellcome Collection in 2025 in London.
Past recommendations:
Otherlands: Thomas Halliday. History of our planet from today to its first appearance 550 million years ago.
The lost Rain Forests of Britain: Guy Shrubsole.
Underland: Robert Macfarlane. Took ten years to write and can be read again and again.
English Pastoral: James Rebanks. Account of becoming an organic farmer after several years of tryjng to keep up with the world using chemicals and pestcides.
Islands of Abandonment: Call Flyn. Life in the post-human landscape of abandoned places.
Blue Machine: Helen Czerski. How the ocean shapes our world.
The Climate Change Garden: Sally Morgan and Kim Stoddart. Ways to make the most of your garden today.
The Joy of Gardening: book of collected poems.
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