Back in the Frame: Cycling, Belonging and Finding Joy | Jools Walker, aka Lady Velo | the story of a woman of colour overcoming health problems after returning to cycling after a 10-year break, includes interviews with other female trailblazers who are disrupting the cycling narrative

Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope | Sabrina Pace-Humphreys | Sharing stories from her life growing up a mixed-raced woman in a rural town. About how running saved her life; and ultimately about how someone can not only survive but thrive in spite of their past.

Darkling | Sheree Mack | Poetry to explore how a Black woman can survive and thrive in a White Supremacy culture. But also a book about ecology and memory, bodies and grief, nature and healing, about learning how to be within the landscape and the sea, in order to reconnect with others and self with joy.

Gears for Queers | Abigail Melton and Lilith Cooper | Keen to see some of Europe, partners Abi (she/her) and Lili (they/them) get on their bikes and start pedalling.

Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections | Corinne Fowler

Hidden Nature | Alys Fowler | Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, the Guardian's award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart.

How to Conserve Conversationalists: 2nd Edition | Jessie Panazzolo | An autobiographical journey through Jessie Panazzolo’s experience in founding a global community of budding and burnt out conservationists.

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain | Anita Sethi | A journey of reclamation through the natural landscapes of the North, brilliantly exploring identity, nature, place and belonging.

Nature is a Human Right | Edited by Ellen Miles | An international, intergenerational anthology exploring the significance of nature contact and threats of nature deprivation through a unique lens, from mental health to anti-racism, climate activism to disability.

Outside Voices | YHA | an e-book anthology of human stories, with contributions from a diverse range of communities

Out of the Woods | Luke Turner | A fierce, poignant and highly original memoir about sexuality, shame and the lure of the trees

Polar Exposure: The Women’s Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition | Felicity Aston | currently crowdfunding

Salt on my Skin | Sarah Kennedy Norquoy | In search of solace from her living grief of losing her best friend to long-term illness and her mother battling dementia, she turned to her newfound hobby of wild swimming

The Natural Health Service: How nature can mend your mind | Isabel Hardman | In the bold and insightful The Natural Health Service, Isabel Hardman advocates the enormous benefits of living life in the great outdoors and reveals how fresh air and activity has proved the perfect tonic for her battles with depression and anxiety.

Waymaking | Edited by Helen Mort, Claire Carter, Heather Dawe and Camilla Barnard | an anthology of women’s adventure writing, poetry and art

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back | Guy Shrubsole

Women on Nature | Katherine Norbury | This landmark anthology brings together the work of over a hundred women, from the fourteenth century to the present day, who have written about the natural world in Britain, Ireland and the outlying islands of our archipelago.

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US Based

The Adventure Gap | James Edwards Mills | US based, story of first predominantly African American ascent of Denali

The Colors of Nature | Alison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret Savoy | essays from diverse backgrounds

Black Faces, White Spaces | Carolyn Finney | exploring underrepresentation of African Americans in the US outdoors

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