(Hardback)

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.

(Paperback)

In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past.

(Paperback)

Whether creating a cassoulet which uses English ingredients, making bread from chestnuts or slow-cooking a Peking duck in front of an ancient fan heater, this book encourages us to be daring and imaginative in our cooking and our approach to food.

(Hardback)

A timeless exploration of the nightingale, blending cultural history, science, and the mysterious beauty of birdsong. This newly revised edition includes first-hand accounts of nightingale performances, insights into their declining population, and reveals untold stories like the human mimic behind a famous 1924 BBC broadcast.

(Hardback)

The classic foraging guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered and picked in the wild, Food for Free returns in its 40th year as a sumptuous, beautifully illustrated and fully updated anniversary edition.

(Hardback, Main)

The godfather of British nature writing reflects on the conflict between cultivation and autonomous nature

(Paperback, Main)

A Mabey magnum opus: 'Mabey's finest, an eclectic world-roaming collection of stories...lacing colour, intimacy and emotional texture around the scaffold of hard facts.' - Spectator

(Paperback)

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', the author has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This title features his favourite pieces and presents a view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.

(Hardback)

Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register a sort of Domesday Book.


It is unique in that it is not a botanical flora but a cultural one an account of the role of wild plants in social life, arts, custom and landscape.

(Paperback, New edition)

A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes.

(Paperback, New edition)

The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.

(Paperback, Main)

To accompany a major BBC TV series on the naturalist Gilbert White, the award-winning biography by the best-selling nature author

(Paperback)

'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times

Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey

In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.

(Hardback)

the outer limit is making leather out of apples);
* 'Cooking against the grain' - if we didn't have access to wheat, what could we make with nuts
* How to deal with gluts - those autumn mountains of beans and courgettes;
* Making-do the wartime way - canny tricks his mother taught him;

(Paperback, Main)

An exploration of our preoccupation with the weather, as heard on BBC Radio 3: Changing Climates.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, Main)

A lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place by one of Britain's best and most admired nature writers.