Tales from the Riverbank

'The Pull of the River' is an invitation to explore the hidden wilderness that might be sitting right in front of us. It is a beautifully written exploration of nature, place and friendship, and an ode to the great art - and joy - of adventure.

Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered, and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in 'The Wind in the Willows', once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone. This is their story, and the story of a conservationist with a w...

Four small water voles are about to embark upon a long and perilous journey along the Great River, but will they ever find a safe place to call home?

In this story Toad becomes an airborne amphibian and launches his riskiest mission yet, with the help of his young friends, to stop the environmentally unfriendly weasels in their tracks.

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical a...

From the bestselling author of Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane, and acclaimed artist, Jackie Morris, Lost Words provides spells to conjure nature with. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world - Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and A...

In Christopher Somerville's workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insect corpses, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice and gallons of sweat. Everything Somerville has written about walking the British countryside ...

In this first river book, there are ducks floating on the river, beavers building dams, frogs catching insects and many more river creatures to bring to life with the moving parts.

Clem and her friends Ash and Zara are members of the Thames and Tide Club. Every weekend they go mudlarking by the river, searching for treasures that have washed up on the shore. Clem has found old things, new things and a whole heap of rubbish. But one day, she finds something really special. S...

A beautifully lyrical collection of essays on the natural world in Britain by the Guardian's country diary writer Paul Evans. With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. It is a book both for those that live in the country and those that don't, bu...