Welcome to our Nature Books Homepage
From reflections on the beauty of our woodlands to studies of the strangest creatures of the deep, an explosion of brilliant publishing in nature books has occured in recent years.
LitVox aims to bring you the very best and newest nature books from around the world.
Looking for a gift for the nature-reader in your life? Check out our nature books gift box, available only from LitVox, Ireland’s best online bookshop.
Brand New Nature Books
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The History of the World in 100 Plants
By Leif Bersweden...
€ 35.00 -
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest
by Eoghan Daltun...
€ 22.95 -
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
by Ed Yong...
€ 18.95 -
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong...
€ 26.95 -
Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey Through Britain and Ireland
By Leif Bersweden...
€ 26.95 -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
By Doreen Cunningham...
€ 24.95 -
Landlines
By Raynor Winn...
€ 24.95 -
Listen to the Land Speak
by Manchán Magan...
€ 21.95 -
The Instant
by Amy Liptrot...
€ 15.95 -
Islands of Abandonment
by Cal Flyn...
€ 13.00 -
Otherlands: A World in the Making
by Thomas Halliday...
€ 24.95 -
The Heartbeat of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben...
€ 25.00 -
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
by Steven Lovatt...
€ 15.95 -
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul...
€ 25.00 -
Bird Therapy
by Joe Harkness...
€ 13.00 -
Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests
by Dee Dee...
€ 17.95 -
Small Bodies of Water
by Nina Mingya...
€ 18.95 -
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness
by Charlie Corbett...
€ 19.00 -
The Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
by Catherine Raven...
€ 19.00 -
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
by Fred Pearce
€ 25.00 -
The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
by Adam Nicolson...
€ 17.95 -
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by Dave Goulson...
€ 17.95 -
Vesper Flights
by Helen Macdonald...
€ 13.00 -
The Book of Trespass
by Nick Hayes...
€ 13.00
Our Favourite Nature Books
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Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
by Adam Nicholson...
€ 13.50 -
Islands of Abandonment
by Cal Flyn...
€ 13.00 -
Featherhood
by Charlie Gilmour...
€ 12.00 -
The Outrun
by Amy Liptrot...
€ 13.00 -
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible
by Simon Barnes...
€ 12.00 -
The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
by John Wright...
€ 15.00 -
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald...
€ 13.00 -
Diary of a Young Naturalist
by Dara McAnulty...
€ 13.00 -
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
by James Rebanks...
€ 12.00 -
The Wild Silence
'Raynor Winn has...
€ 12.00 -
Underland
By Robert Macfarlane...
€ 13.50 -
The Salt Path
By Raynor Winn...
€ 13.00
A walk in the woods - Books about trees and woodlands
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Ireland's Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore
by Niall Mac...
€ 16.95 -
The Heartbeat of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben...
€ 25.00 -
The Wisdom of Trees
by Max Adams...
€ 13.00 -
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
by Roger Deakin...
€ 13.50 -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us
by Dr Patrick...
€ 19.50 -
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World
by Fred Pearce
€ 25.00 -
The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition
by Peter Wohlleben...
€ 32.00 -
The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben...
€ 13.00
Life on the Wing - Books about Birds
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Featherhood
by Charlie Gilmour...
€ 12.00 -
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
by Steven Lovatt...
€ 15.95 -
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul...
€ 25.00 -
The Genius of Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman...
€ 13.00 -
Bird Therapy
by Joe Harkness...
€ 13.00 -
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness
by Charlie Corbett...
€ 19.00 -
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald...
€ 13.00
Tooth & Claw - Nature Books about Animals
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The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
by Ed Yong...
€ 18.95 -
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by Ed Yong...
€ 26.95 -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
By Doreen Cunningham...
€ 24.95 -
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding
by John Bradshaw...
€ 13.50 -
Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed
by John Bradshaw...
€ 13.50 -
The Cow Book
by John Connell...
€ 13.00 -
The Secret Life of Cows
by Rosamund Young...
€ 12.00 -
The Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
by Catherine Raven...
€ 19.00 -
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith...
€ 13.00 -
Other Minds
by Peter Godfrey-Smith...
€ 13.00
LitVox Recommends...
Birdsong In A Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
One of the strangest and most beautiful nature books published in a decade.
“At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they’re always ‘on manoeuvres’, and it’s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush”
As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the first time, many of us started becoming more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us. Birdsong in a Time of Silence is a lyrical, uplifting reflection on these sounds and what they mean to us.
From a portrait of the blackbird – most prominent and articulate of the early spring singers – to explorations of how birds sing, the science behind their choice of song and nest-sites, and the varied meanings that people have brought to and taken from birdsong, this book ultimately shows that natural history and human history cannot be separated. It is the story of a collective reawakening brought on by the strangest of springs.