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Jay Griffiths

*A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2026*‘A moving, essential book . . . Nobody writes about Nature with more beauty and grace than Jay Griffiths’ Brian EnoFrom celebrated author Jay Griffiths comes a unique and heartfelt insight into the healing nature of our relationship with animalsAll animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, his...

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Jay Griffiths

WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARDPart travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer_________________________'I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly b...

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Jay Griffiths

'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John BergerWhy rebel?Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.Because we need a politics of kindness, but the very opposite is on the rise. Libertarian fascism, with its triumphal brutalism, its racism and misogyny - a politics that loathes the living world.

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Jay Griffiths

From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip PullmanIn Kith, Jay Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world.Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic, as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, l...

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Jay Griffiths

A stark, lyrical and personal account of the psyche in crisis from the bestselling author of Wild and Kith"I want to describe it for those who have never experienced it but who perhaps know someone with it. If this book can befriend just one person in that terrifying loneliness, it will be worth writing."Tristimania tells the story of a devastating year-long episode of manic depression, culminating in a long solo pilgrima...

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Darren Jones, Niel Bushnell, Will Hadcroft, Andrew Lane, Mark Wright, Jonathan Morris

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Jacob Dudman, Dan Starkey, Adjoa Andoh, Frazer Hines, Maureen O'Brien, Sooz Kempner, Silas Carson, Jaye Griffiths, Mina Anwar

A treasury of Doctors invite you to join them in twelve exciting and original audio adventures.The Tenth Doctor must take a dangerous test when he seeks an audience with the mysterious Minds of Magnox. The Twelfth Doctor and Nardole think they're in 1950s suburbia until an attack takes them into The Nightmare Realm. The Ashes of Eternity threaten the Ninth Doctor and Rose in 1980s England, before the duo encounter The Beast of Scar Hill on a snowy Yorkshire moor. T...

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Jay Griffiths

Brought to you by Penguin.From celebrated author Jay Griffiths comes a unique and heartfelt insight into the healing nature of our relationship with animalsPet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This book offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history, and Indigenous knowledge.We meet a pot-bellied pig who saved her owner's life, lions who guarded a girl from kidnappers, dolphins a...

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Steve Lyons

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Jaye Griffiths

aye Griffiths reads this original adventure for the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.For Clara Oswald, life has fallen into a routine. By day she teaches the pupils at Coal Hill School, and by night - and at weekends - she travels in Time and Space with the Doctor.Clara's having the time of her life, enjoying all the thrill and laughter of being with the Doctor - until, one day, there's somebody else.To Clara's immense sho...

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Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison

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Best British Short Stories

'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, ne...

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Darren Jones

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Jaye Griffiths, Silas Carson, Sooz Kempner

Hired assassin Doom is on a mission to save her own life before Death catches up with her. If she can find the Doctor they might be able to help her - but where in Time and Space are they?These four missions - The Steel Cascade, The Martian Dilemma, An Ood Halloween and Dark Space - take Doom to a Mediterranean cruise ship in 1966, the planet Mars in the distant past, San Francisco in 1999, and finally a desolate planet in a dying solar system.Along the way she meets former...

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Advances in Urban Sustainability

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality—which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live.Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainabili...

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Rachel Hewitt, Jay Griffiths, Stephen Gregory

Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and visual panache. World exclusive for illustrations and letters by Margiad Evans/Peggy Whistler, UK exclusive for selection of Lizzie Le Blond's skating photography, prose by award winning authors Rachel Hewitt and Jay Griffiths, winter ghost story by Hollywood writer Stephen Gregory.