Vintage Earth series

Vintage Earth is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

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The Last Quarter of the Moon

Chi Zijian, Bruce Humes (trans.)

At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen…

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The Man Who Planted Trees

Jean Giono, Barbara Bray (trans.), Harry Brockway (illus.)

Shepherd Elzard Bouffier lives alone with his sheep not far from a drought-stricken and windswept hamlet. After the death of his wife and child, he chooses to devote the rest…

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The Man with the Compound Eyes

Wu Ming-Yi, Darryl Sterk (trans.)

On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. In the aftermath of the catastrophe…

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The Mermaid of Black Conch

Monique Roffey

Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year

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The Overstory

Richard Powers

This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, brought together to save it from catastrophe.

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Solar

Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard…

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The Tusk That Did the Damage

Tania James

Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary…

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The Wall

Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (trans.)

A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe (Doris Lessing)

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