Clergyman Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne has been continuously in print since appearing in 1789

This is no Hardyesque tale of destiny inescapable, but rather of pity for needless waste, and admiration for lives filled with appetite

Subtitled 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland’s Towns and Cities, Wood’s work is a kind of illumination, and an exercise in mindfulness

With little hope that environmental disaster can be staved off, Macfarlane finds grounds for optimism

The Belfast author’s writing demonstrates an ongoing commitment to working-class and queer representation

A dual consciousness – of the sublime and exalted nature of the universe, and of its utter dispassion – flows through this novel

In this police procedural the period detail is perfectly evoked, the dialogue crackling with wit

Thomas Pakenham’s book simultaneously succeeds and fails; Richard Shimell’s Trees in Winter is emotionally resonant and impactful

History of Cromwell’s experiment with republicanism is restricted to England and debating chambers of London

Cormac Moore’s essay on the establishment of Northern Ireland is among the strongest in this collection

Wisdom and deftness were tools of writer whose subjects ranged from the lyrical to the sectarian

Edward Burke investigates the 1922 massacre in the context of collusion and archives reluctant to yield truth about the North

This book is structured as a compendium of diary entries, with one selected each of 35 years

‘The Rhine, like all rivers, consists not only of the water flowing between its banks but of every part of its vast drainage basin’

Glen James Brown uses his mastery of medieval idiom to weave a tale of fear, violence and class tensions