Animals & society

Discover secrets, stories, and facts about the world's most at-risk animals! This is an engaging collection packed with over 60 real-life courageous creatures - these rebel animals are the stars of their own stories. With incredible facts about animals from all seven continents, plus tons of info...

Monkey is a Neapolitan Mastiff who was given away by an owner who couldn't care for the boisterous young dog. Meanwhile, up and coming animal trainer for the movies Julie Tottman is about to start filming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when disaster strikes: the dog playing Fang has dropped ...

The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator will soon be making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK's reintroduction agenda. Ro...

A collection of animal rescue stories from RNLI stations across the UK and Ireland. This book sheds light on the dangers faced by the volunteer crews, the unpredictable encounters that fill their days, as well as retelling of the terrifying ordeals, the reunifications and the relief experienced b...

We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular culture as killing machines, we are awed by their power and strength. But the shark is so much more - a marvel of the sea, they have evolved over 450 million years into over 500 species, from the bioluminescent kitefi...

Red kites were once Britain's most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries of ruthless persecution. When some reintroduced kites began roosting on their 1,400-acre farm at Argaty in Perthshire, Tom Bowser's parents, Lynn and Niall,...

2022 sees the 20th anniversary of Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park in Suffolk, which started out as a farm for rare breed pigs in 2002. This book will celebrate the journey that Jimmy and his family have found themselves on over the years, and the many animals that now call the farm home.

Tom Inglis and his Wheaten terrier Pepe have lived together for eighteen years: countless days of walks and play and the odd bit of chaos. Now, though, they are both getting old. 'To Love a Dog' tells the story of Tom's life with Pepe, and looks at the ancient connection between humans and dogs. ...

Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for food. Yet most people rarely interact with chickens or know much about them. In 'Under the Henfluence', Tove Danovich explores the lives of these quirky, mysterious birds who s...

History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated u...