For a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK and beyond. She experiences 24-hour daylight while swimming in the Gulf of Finland and visits Norway to witness the Northern Lights and speak to people who live in darkness for three months each year. She hikes through the haunted yew forests of Kingley Vale and embarks on a nocturnal sail down the River Dart.

Author : Tiffany Francis-Baker

Edition : Paperback, Bloomsbury , 272 pages

ISBN : 9781472964601

“Ever dreamed of being an otter? That utter underwater thunderbolter, that shimmering twister.”

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards 30 from 30 Award 2020

Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2018

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018

Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2019

The Lost Words is a very special illustrated collection of spell-poems to re-wild the language of children. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world - Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds.

Why Novel North recommends

'Meandering through the pages of this big book brings enormous joy. The illustrations are spellbinding and the words magical. A wonderful book for adults and children.’

Author : Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

Edition : Hamish Hamilton imprint of Penguin Books, Hardback, 128 pages

ISBN : 9780241253588

Published : 5th July 2017

Weight: 1469g
Dimensions: 377 x 278 x 16mm

“He who shall hurt the little wren

Shall never be beloved by men.”

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Following in the footsteps of The Robin: A Biography, The Wren: A Biography is a wonderfully charming and beautifully bound book taking us through the year in the life of Britain’s most common and loudest in proportion to its size bird. Living both in our gardens and in remote locations across the nation, this tiny bird, weighing no more than roughly 2 sheets of A4 paper, has been popular in our cultural and literary history for many a year.

Author : Stephen Moss

Edition : Square Peg imprint of Penguin Books, 208 pages

ISBN : 9781910931936

When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad become the firmest of friends, but after Toad's latest escapade, can they join together and beat the wretched weasels once and for all?

Author : Kenneth Grahame

Edition : V & A Collectors Edition, Hardback, 256 pages

ISBN : 9780141385679

Weight: 272g
Dimensions: 184 x 138 x 23mm