October 2018 Issue Tom Fort Not Many Fish in the Sea Silver Shoals: Five Fish That Made Britain By Charles Rangeley-Wilson LR
August 2018 Issue Charles Foster Pod Casts Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator By Jason M Colby Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals By Nick Pyenson
October 2012 Issue Ronald Blythe A Year in the Life Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village By Stephen Moss LR
October 2012 Issue Philip Hoare Wild Things The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary By Caspar Henderson LR
December 2012 Issue Colin Tudge Shake Your Tail Feathers Drawn from Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise By David Attenborough & Errol Fuller LR
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