Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“This is an outstanding science book, actually. And again: who would imagine you’d enjoy a doorstopper of a book about fungi? He goes through everything you need to know about fungi: he talks about truffles, about psychedelic mushrooms, about yeast and alcohol, penicillin. He even makes the case that life wouldn’t have to moved onto land without fungi.I thought that was fascinating. So, again, great science and really well written.” Read more...

The Best Popular Science Books of 2021: The Royal Society Book Prize

Luke O'Neill, Scientist

“This is an amazing book. It opened up a whole new world that I knew nothing about. Well, I knew a bit because some farmers do talk about the fungal roots beneath the soil, but I didn’t know enough. It’s really interesting. It’s a complex subject and he does navigate through it deftly. The book is fairly accessible, I’d say, and utterly absorbing.” Read more...

The Best Conservation Books of 2021

Charlotte Smith

“Sheldrake uses fungi to demonstrate the entangledness of everything in the natural world. For him, no questions are out of bounds. There are no canonical principles which cannot and should not be interrogated. And he approaches it with an effervescent, child-like enthusiasm.” Read more...

The Best Nature Books of 2020

Charles Foster, Medical Scientist