December 2025 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Birds Behaving Badly
The Penguin Book of Penguins: An Expert’s Guide to the World’s Most Beloved Bird
By Peter Fretwell & Lisa Fretwell
An Inconvenience of Penguins: Epic Voyages in Pursuit of the World’s Most Beloved Bird
By Jamie Lafferty
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November 2025 Issue
Miranda Seymour
Wild at Heart
Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe
By Adam Weymouth
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October 2025 Issue
Tom Fort
Hook, Line & Sinker
Every Last Fish: What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them
By Rose George
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July 2025 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Butterfly Effect
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April 2025 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Doom & Plume
Three books on birds
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December 2024 Issue
Gavin Plumley
Paws for Thought
The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life is Most Worth Living
By Mark Rowlands
Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog
By Chris Pearson
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November 2023 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Giving a Hoot
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
By Jennifer Ackerman
The Owl: A Biography
By Stephen Moss
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August 2023 Issue
Nigel Andrew
They Come Over Here, Take Our Nuts
Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home
By Peter Coates
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February 2023 Issue
Mark Rowlands
Natural Rights
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
By Martha C Nussbaum
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October 2022 Issue
Helen Bynum
Whither the Narwhal?
The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure
By Katherine Rundell, with illustrations by Talya Baldwin
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November 2021 Issue
David Profumo
Net Benefits
A History of Fish and Fisheries of the River Thames
By David J Solomon
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August 2021 Issue
Nigel Andrew
To Bee or Not to Bee
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By Dave Goulson
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July 2021 Issue
Julian Baggini
#MeatToo
How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
By Henry Mance
April 2021 Issue
Emma Larkin
A Bangkok Python
November 2020 Issue
Kathryn Hughes
Hooked on a Feline
Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
By Oliver Soden
Lost Cat
By Mary Gaitskill
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
By John Gray
October 2020 Issue
Tom Fort
A Slippery Customer
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World’s Most Enigmatic Fish
By Patrik Svensson (Translated from Swedish by Agnes Broomé)
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July 2020 Issue
Nigel Andrew
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gyrfalcon
An Indifference of Birds
By Richard Smyth
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
By Jennifer Ackerman
Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl
By Jonathan C Slaght
December 2019 Issue
Tom Fort
They Don’t Even Have Smartphones
Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
By David Barrie
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November 1986 Issue
Keith Waterhouse
The Naked Cat & Naked Dog
Dogwatching
By Desmond Morris
Catwatching
By Desmond Morris
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November 2019 Issue
Patrick Scrivenor
Tears of a Wombat Owner
The Animal's Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000 Year-Old Love Story
By Jacky Colliss Harvey
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