Inspiration through Nature

Brambleby Books specialises in natural history, with an emphasis on biodiversity, conservation and the environment. Our aim is to bring alive the variety and splendour of the natural world in the form of narrative descriptions, often interfaced with poetry and/or the visual arts. We also wish to promote natural history as a leisure pursuit.

2011/2012 publications for pre-orders / purchase

Apps now available for iPhones

Adrian Riley's classic field and site guide British and Irish Butterflies , now RRP £25, is now available as an app from the iTunes store for your iPhone / iPad for only £4.99. With the latest upgrade (Dec. 2010), a record button was added so you to e-mail home any butterfly sightings with coordinates, date and time.

Book orders

Orders can be made using our secure online order system. We sell all our books at a discount and delivery is free within the UK.

Our Poetry Books

Poem of the month

A haikai

Memories in Colour

The roan chestnuts

Lie gleaming in the litter

Of my memories.

Sky blue and silver

Camouflages the morning

Preparing for war.

Scarlet patched with white.

Promise of oblivion

Beneath the birch trees.

A tropical night

Brilliant black with silver stars

Guiding our footsteps.

Clouds grey and golden

Crowning princely podocarps.

The Kokako calls.

Firing the landscape

Orange daisies kiss the sun.

Tears moisten my eyes.

In mountain grassland

Royal gentians reflect

The colour of kings.

Limestone glows golden.

Ascending through the shadows

The hoodoos worship.

Many shades of green

Spring’s palette paints the woodlands.

I long for England.
Anthony Boniface, The Call of the Kokako

Through our expert authors and their books, we support global efforts to save and maintain forests and to celebrate the 2011 International Year of Forests.


	UK500: Birding in the Fast Lane A huge tribute to one man's determination to see the most bird species in the UK before he turned 30.


	The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks An essential companion for walks on the Isle of Purbeck.


	British and Irish Butterflies The complete field, identification and site guide to the species, subspecies and forms in full colour.