ORCHARD: A YEAR IN ENGLANDS EDEN (PB)

Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life. England's ancient orchards are collaborations between people and nature. They are sources of hope for the future and protecting them promises a far richer England for the centuries to come - for wildlife and for us. As the seasons turn, a wealth of animals and plants are revealed: Bumble and solitary bees apartment-hunting in April; spotted flycatchers migrating in May; redstarts, hedgehogs and owls nesting in June; an explosion of life in the summer and the harvest and homespun cider-making in the autumn. And all throughout the year, the orchard's human and animal inhabitants work together, creating one of the richest ecosystems left in Britain.