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  1. British Isles: A natural history by Alan Titchmarsh, BBC Books
  2. A Year at Kew by Rupert Smith, BBC Books
  3. The Ancestor’s Tale: A pilgrimage to the dawn of life by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion
  4. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 14 BBC Books
  5. Human: The definitive guide to our species by Robert Winston, Dorling Kindersley
  6. The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Jonathan Cape/Random House
  7. The Earth: An intimate history by Richard Fortey, HarperCollins
  8. Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive by Jared Diamond, Allen Lane/Penguin
  9. The End of the Line by Charles Clover, Ebury Press
  10. What Makes Me…

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