Sunday Situations Bestseller

‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster

Waterstones nonfiction Book from the Month (September)

Are trees and shrubs social beings? How do trees live? Perform they feel discomfort or have knowing of their surroundings?

In The Hidden Life of Trees and shrubs Peter Wohlleben makes the case which the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking technological discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live as well as their children, talk to them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who find themselves sick or struggling, and even alert each other of impending hazards. Wohlleben also stocks his deep like of woods and forests, detailing the amazing processes of life, loss of life and regeneration he offers seen in his woodland.

A walk in the woods won’t be the same again.