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connections. Also out in similar vein from Pyramid, Crystal Zodiac by Alice Linden (0753734650).


Jane Struthers The Deck of Fortune: How to Read Your Fortune in a Deck of Playing Cards Pyramid, 7th, PB, £8.99, 9780753734667 Using an ordinary pack of playing cards, discover cartomancy, one of the oldest forms of divination, with this guide to every- thing you need to know, from the meanings and astrological associations of each card to how to ask the cards for answers to all your burning questions.


Natural history & pets


Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed DK, 7th, HB, £30, 9780241412756 With lavish macro photo- graph and microscopic images, this reveals a hidden world of micro life, from the tiniest insects and spiders to pollen grains, butterfly eggs, human nerve cells and bacteria and viruses.


Accordingly, he leaves the city after work one day per month for a year and camps out for the night near the same tiny pond.


William Gray Family Wildlife Adventures: 50 Breaks in Search of Britain’s Wildlife Bradt, 1st, Pb, £16.99, 9781784778422 From island-hopping in the Isles of Scilly to wild camping along Scotland’s Whale Route, a book packed with inspiration for exploring Britain’s amazing wildlife with your children.


Tom Jackson Birds of Prey: Stunning Photographs of the World’s Great Hunting Birds Amber, HB, £19.95, 9781838860950 With accompany- ing explanatory text, more than 200 colour photographs of birds of prey species, from the New World Caracaras to the Oriental Hobby, the Northern Goshawk, the Swamp Harrier and the European Merlin.


Megan McCubbin An Atlas of Endangered Animals Two Roads, 14th, HB, £20, 9781529369533 There are currently 41,415 listed endangered species, and more than 16,000 of them are threatened with extinction. This illustrated account by the “Springwatch” presenter takes 20 of these threat- ened creatures, both well-known (white rhinos, tigers) as well as lesser- known species, and paints a portrait of their lives, and of the people trying to save them.


Rick McIntyre The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male Greystone, HB, £18.99, 9781771645270 Book three in McIntyre’s Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series focuses on Wolf 302, a renegade with an eye for the ladies who fled from danger, begged for food from other wolves, and ditched females he’d made preg- nant. This, the story of his redemption, is a “powerful coming-of-age tale that will strike a chord with anyone who has struggled to make a change, big or small”.


Xavier Bray Faithful and Fearless: Portraits of Dogs Giles, HB, £25, 9781913875015 This richly illustrated book contains more than 50 dog portraits which show- case the special connec- tion between humans and dogs, including the work of George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Lucian Freud and David Hockney.


Torbjørn Ekelund A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys Into Nature Greystone, HB, £16.99, 9781771645126 In this “humorous and modest Walden for modern times”, Ekelund evokes Henry David Thoreau as he asks whether the secret to communing with nature lies in small rituals and quiet reflection, rather than grand gestures or epic adventures.


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John Lewis-Stempel The Soaring Life of the Lark Doubleday, 7th, HB, £9.99, 9780857525802 In this latest addition to his marvellous wildlife series, which includes The Fox and The Owl, Lewis-Stempel explores the music and poetry, the breathtaking heights and struggle to survive of one of Britain’s most iconic songbirds.


London Wildlife Trust London in the Wild: Exploring Nature in the City Kyle, 28th, HB, £14.99, 9780857839947 “You don’t have to go to the countryside to experi- ence nature; London’s wild spaces and wildlife are much more diverse than we think.” Including a fore- word by Chris Packham, a guide to the teeming wildlife to be found in the capital’s parks, gardens, wetlands, woodlands and heaths.


Susan Ogilvy Nests Particular, 7th, HB, £20, 9780241481714 This glorious-sounding celebration of the archi- tectural ingenuity of birds contains Ogilvy’s exquisite portraits of 50 nests, reproduced at exactly life size. Each illustration is paired with a charming paragraph of information about each nest, the species that made it, and the circumstances of its discovery.


Jessica Pierce A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans Princeton UP, 26th, HB, £18.99, 9780691196183 What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would they be able to survive without us? Challenging the notion that dogs would be helpless without their human counterparts, this explains how imagin- ing a post-human future for our pets can guide how we interact with them now.


Mary Roach Animal, Vegetable, Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law Oneworld, 14th, HB, 9781786078346 What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? In this latest outing, one of my all-time favourite science writers probes cases where humanity and animals bump up against each other with violent consequences, writing with all her customary verve and wit.


Witch’s Broom and Robin’s Pincushion to Dew Ponds and Hollow Ways.


which will take only a few minutes to read, along with a Commandment: a prescription or prompt for the reader to follow as they go about their day.


Madlen Ziege Nature is Never Silent Scribe, HB, £14.99, 9781913348243 The behavioural biolo- gist author reveals the fascinating world of non- human communication that takes place between animals and plants, and shows how nature’s language can help us understand our own place in the world a little better.


Sumana Roy How I Became a Tree Yale, HB, £18.99, 9780300260441 US creative writing profes- sor and author, whose fans include Margaret Atwood, offers a new vision of what it means to be human through the story of trees, drawn to their non-violent way of being and their ability to cope with loneliness and pain. She also explores the lessons that other writers, artists, scientists and spiri- tual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees.


Mat Ward & Rupert Fawcett (illus) What Dogs Want Bloomsbury, 14th, HB, £12.99, 9781526639950 Everything dog owners need to know to be a fantastic owner and have fun at the same time. Ward’s advice is accompanied by funny illustrations, demonstrat- ing everything from what different woofs mean to how to read a dog’s ears.


John Wright A Spotter’s Guide to Countryside Mysteries: From Piddocks and Lynchets to Witch’s Broom Profile, 14th, HB, 314.99, 9781788168267 Billed as a “grown up I-spy book that illuminates the details we might otherwise miss”, this aims to intro- duce us to some of the more mysterious features of the countryside, from


Personal development & self-help


Laurence Alison & Neil Shortland Decision Time: How to Make the Choices Your Life Depends On Vermilion, 7th, HB, £14.99, 97817850436111 Two renowned experts on critical decision- making have employed techniques used in war rooms and war zones to create this step-by-step guide to decision-making in everyday life, whether it concerns starting a new career, moving across the world or declaring your undying love for your best friend.


Thomas Erikson Surrounded by Setbacks: Or, How to Succeed When Everything’s Gone Bad Vermilion, 5th, PB, £9.99, 9781785043666 The author of Surrounded by Idiots and Surrounded by Psychopaths returns with a guide to handling everything (and everyone) around you when the shit hits the fan, by finding an approach to adversity that works for you.


Robert Greene The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature Profile, 7th, HB, £20, 9781788168533 The author of The 48 Laws of Power et al distils his self-development wisdom into daily doses


Anne Marie Hourihane Sorry for Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death Penguin Sandycove, 7th, HB, £16.99, 9781844885237 This exploration of the intimate rituals surround- ing death in Ireland includes stories of wakes, hospices, murder and missing bodies. It all goes to show how Irish culture handles death with a “unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability”.


Amishi Jha Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day Piatkus, 19th, HB, £20, 9780349424965 In which an acclaimed neuroscientist takes us on an eye-opening tour of the brain’s attention system and gives us cognitive training techniques to enable us to function at maximum mental capac- ity, and be present and engaged, no matter how anxious or stressed our lives.


Jo Love Therapy is… Magic. An Essential Guide to the Ups and Downs and Life-Changing Experience of Talking Therapy Yellow Kite, 7th, HB, £14.99, 9781529348439 In this part-memoir, part mental health resource, Love, an award-winning mental health advocate, shines a light on what exactly goes on in the mental therapy room, and shares her insights into the potentially life-changing effects of therapy.


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My Non-Identical Twin: What I’d Like You to Know About Living with Tourette’s Sphere, HB, £14.99, 9780751584066 Meg, known as “This Trippy Hippy” to her 12 million followers on


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