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A Book of Heroes: Or a Sporting Half Century by Simon Barnes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Everyone's lives will, at some time, have been touched by a moment of sporting heroism. Whether it was Ellen MacArthur's triumphant finish off the French coast in 2005, or Bobby Charlton's long-range goal that transformed England's fortunes against Mexico in 1966, we have all witnessed heroic acts - or ...Show more
Epic - A 30-Year Search for the Soul of Sport by Simon Barnes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
'For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times - but that's enough about me. What matters is sport.' This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He has reported on six World Cups, seven Olympic Games, cricket on five continents a ...Show more
Epic: In Search of the Soul of Sport and Why It Matters by Simon Barnes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
'This may conceivably be Barnes's best work yet' Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail 'For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times - but that's enough about me. What matters is sport.' This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He has ...Show more
History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes
Category: Animals & Nature
A powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals - from the blue whale to the mosquito - that have had the biggest influence on humanity through the ages. We are not alone. We are not alone on the planet. We are not alone in the countryside. We are not alone in cities. We are not alone in our ho ...Show more
How to Be a Bad BirdwatcherTo the Greater Glory of Life by Simon Barnes
Category: Nature
Look out the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now a bad birdwatcher. Inthis refreshingly irreverent introduction to the subject, Simon Barnes makes birdwatching simple--and above all, enjoyable. Anyone who has ever looked up at the sky or gazed out the window knows a thing or two a ...Show more
How to be a Bad Botanist by Simon Barnes
Category: Home and Garden
Can you tell a tomato from a grape? A patch of grass from a Christmas tree? Then congratulations – you’re a botanist. Self-confessed bad birdwatcher Simon Barnes thought he knew nothing about plants. He didn't have anything against them: trees are interesting because birds perch in them; plants are use ...Show more
Losing it: A Lifetime in Pursuit of Sporting Excellence by Simon Barnes
Category: Sports and Hobbies
To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too must have played and lost and won, known shame, hope, joy, horror and glory. Simon Barnes has taken part in ...Show more
On the Marsh - A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet by Simon Barnes
Category: Animals & Nature
How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even closer to home.When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto a ...Show more
Rewild Yourself - 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
Category: Science
'Such a simple, clever book.' Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways t ...Show more
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes
Category: Science & Natural History
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining.And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatu ...Show more