21st March 2025


Natural history & pets


Andrew Cohen, Helen Thomas, Kirsty Wilson Walking With Dinosaurs DK, 5th, HB, £25, 9780241761533 More than 25 years after it first stomped across our TV screens, Walking With Dinosaurs is returning in a major new six-part series profiling the life stories of these long-lost giants. Taking readers into prehistoric swamps, forest, grasslands and beyond, this lavishly illustrated book accompanies the series.


Jean Coucault, Johnny Rasse, Katia Grubisic (trans) The Bird Singers: How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong


Greystone, HB, £18.99, 9781778401831


Coucault and Rasse first learned to imitate bird calls as children in northern France. Their rivalry at bird-calling competitions gave way to friendship and then to a partnership as performers: Les chanteurs d’oiseaux (the Bird Singers). In this enchanting book they take it in turns to tell their stories in a paean to the transformative power of both nature and friendship.


Dominic Couzens, Madeleine Floyd A Year of Tropical Birdsong: 52 Stories of Tropical Songbirds


Batsford, 5th, HB, £20, 9781849948425


From the scream of the macaw to the buzz of a hummingbird, this colourfully illustrated book profiles the sight and sounds of 52 species of tropical birdlife, with accompanying QR codes which link to audio of each birdsong described.


Nia Gould A History of Portraits in 21 Dogs


Lom Art, 5th, HB, £12.99, 9781915751270


This companion volume to A History of Portraits in 21 Cats features recognisable masterpieces of art, recreated with “dashing” dog subjects.


Pippa Mattinson Fetch: Train Your Dog With Fun and Games


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Ebury, 12th, PB, £18.99, 9781529909173


Make any dog a retriever with this guide to keeping your dog entertained and in superb physical condition through fun fetching games.


Alex Riley Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places


Atlantic, 5th, HB, £22, 9781805460787


From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, and from Himalayan peaks to ocean depths, this explores how life flourishes in the most extreme of habitats, enduring deprivations of oxygen, water, food and sunlight. It all provides hope for the future of life on Earth, even if not human.


Sadiah Qureshi Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction


Allen Lane, 5th, HB, £25, 9780241352106


Chair of Modern British History at Manchester University, Qureshi is a historian of race, science and empire. This is her compelling- sounding history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice; by which Europeans and Americans used the idea that extinction was a natural process to justify persecution and genocide.


Paul Stamets Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification and Use of Psychoactive Fungi


Rider, 12th, HB, £30, 9781846047855


Endorsed by Merlin Sheldrake no less, this is a colour-illustrated guide to hunting, identifying, growing, preparing and using micro- and macro-doses of psilocybin – aka “magic” - mushrooms. Stamets’ TED talk, How Mushrooms Can Save the World, currently has over eight million views and Stamets has more than one million followers on Instagram.


Laurent Tillon, Jessica Moore (trans) Being an Oak: Life as a Tree


Bonnier, 12th, HB, £20, 9781804183403


Tillon is head of biodiversity at France’s National Forestry Office. This illustrated and giftily packaged book is his portrait of a tree he calls Quercus and has known for decades. He reveals a tree embedded in a network of ever-shifting relationships with plants, animals, insects, birds and fungi. Tristan Gooley loves it.


Michael J Warren The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place


Bloomsbury Wildlife, 5th, HB, £20, 9781399412070


I loved this beguiling exploration of how birds have long inspired emotional and imaginative human connections to physical places; the age-old legacy of this attachment is still present in place names like Yaxley (Cambridgeshire) and its cuckoos; and Crackpot (Yorkshire) and its crows. Warren journeys across the UK in search of traces of what our landscapes would have looked like at the time they were named.


Personal development & self-help


Lexie Bean


Meet Me There, Another Time: Letters to Places That Queer and Trans People Left Behind


Jessica Kingsley, 19th, PB, £16.99, 9781805012214


This anthology of queer- and trans- authored pieces focuses on the places the writers have left behind to survive, whether homes, cities, states, countries, people or bodies.


Wren Burke Love Expanded: How Asexuals and Aromantics Are Redefining Love, Life and Family


Allen & Unwin, 5th, HB, £18.99, 9781805462583


Billed as a boundary- pushing book on love and relationships in all their iterations, this book aims to show what we can all learn from the aromantic and asexual communities, placing the focus on the power and importance of platonic love.


Sam Coniff, Katharine Templar Lewis The Uncertainty Toolkit: Worry Less and Do More By Learning to Cope With the Unknown


Bluebird, 12th, HB, £20, 9781035060054


By fundamentally changing how you deal with uncertainty, you can learn to worry less, do more and see a huge improvement in your wellbeing. That’s the promise behind this roadmap for better mental health, with practical exercises and case histories.


Anastasia Fedorova Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire


Granta, 5th, HB, £16.99, 9781803511900


“Expansive, taboo- busting” tour through different sexual fetishes, from latex and leather to medical gear and the gimp mask – with the aim of bringing such subversive desires “out of the dungeon and into the light”.


Danny Fontaine Pitch: How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience on the Planet


Profile, 12th, PB, £16.99, 9781805221043


Fontaine is an expert in innovative pitching. Delving into the psychology of connection and storytelling, this is his “game-changing” guide to the art, science and joy of pitching, which he aims to transform into an exciting, creative and enjoyable experience.


Alexandra Fullerton Human Design Unlocked: Discover Your Energy Type and Harness Your Power


Pavilion, 19th, HB, £12.99, 9780008705848


Introducing the “revolutionary” science of human design (forecast to be the next big thing, I’m told) via your energy type. Are you a “Generator”, a “Manifestor”, a “Manifesting Generator”, a “Projector” or a “Reflector”? Find out and you can unlock a pathway to improving your life.


Books New Titles: Non-Fiction


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