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New Books on Entomology & other Natural History Part 2 - November 2025
Welcome to our second list of new and forthcoming titles for November!
With Christmas just around the corner, many of these books would make wonderful gifts for friends, family - or even a well-deserved treat for yourself.
Some highlights include:
The Butterfly Thief-A gripping true-crime mystery unravelling the audacious theft of thousands of rare butterflies from Australia’s top museums, blending science, obsession, and intrigue across continents.
A Photographic Guide: Stick Insects of Borneo-The definitive, up-to-date guide to Borneo’s remarkable stick and leaf insects, consolidating decades of taxonomic research into an accessible, richly illustrated reference work.
Field Guide to the Flowers of the Western Alps-A comprehensive photographic guide to over 2,000 alpine plant species across France, Italy, and Switzerland, an indispensable companion for botanists and nature lovers.
We also offer Pemberley Book Gift Vouchers, redeemable online, in our shop, or by telephone. Gift vouchers can be purchased for any value and conveniently sent by email. To order, simply get in touch by email orders@pemberleybooks.com or by phone 01753-631114 and we’ll be happy to arrange it.
Ian and Julie Johnson and all the team at Pemberley Books.
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by Marsh, Walter
Cat No. : 63428, Published : NOV 2025
Paperback £16.99
A scientific true-crime caper stretching across the globe, The Butterfly Thief pieces together the bizarre story of one of the largest, most systematic, and baffling museum heists in the (more)
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by Su Jinping; Zhang Qiongyao; Zeng Zhiwei
Cat No. : 63203, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 3500 col photos
Paperback £210.00
Text Chinese with scientific names in Latin. Anyone who has studied butterflies in Taiwan knows about a group of ‘green jewels’ living in the mountain forests - the Theclinae butterflies. They are (more)
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by Bora, D.; Phukan, A.; Chetia, P.; Mech, A.
Cat No. : 62046, Published : 2025, Illustrations : col illus
Hardback £49.95
Contents: 1. The Butterflies: Evolutionary Background, 2. Butterfly Morphology, 3. Guide to Identification of Butterflies of Assam, 4. Ecology and Ecological Significance of Butterflies, 5. Study of (more)
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by White, S.
Cat No. : 62970, Published : 2025, Illustrations : b/w illus
Paperback £8.99
Learn how to create a garden that works both day and night for moths and butterflies, attracting stunning species and helping both flora and fauna to thrive. Moths are a crucial but forgotten (more)
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by Seow-Choen, F.
Cat No. : 63471, Published : 2025, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £55.60
This guide is the 12th book on stick and leaf insects authored by the writer. Over the past 30 years, this and earlier works, alongside articles and papers by other researchers, have redefined and (more)
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by Barataud, J.
Cat No. : 63460, Published : OCT 2025, Illustrations : col photos, col illus
Hardback £55.00
Text French. With the development of acoustic biology techniques, naturalist experts have access to the signals emitted by animals in frequency ranges inaudible to humans. Ultrasonic listening (more)
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by Zhang, H.
Cat No. : 63656, Published : 2025
Hardback £173.00
Text Chinese, names in Latin. Currently, there are 6200 species of worldwide, with over 1000 in China. Yunnan province alone boasts approximately 500 species, accounting for half of the national (more)
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by Grey-Wilson, C.
Cat No. : 61953, Published : 2025, Illustrations : col photos, line drawings
Paperback £45.00
£55.00 (Save £10.00)
This long-awaited field guide covers more than 2000 of the region's exceptionally diverse and important plant-life, from the most common species to local endemics. Illustrated throughout with colour (more)
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by Noltie, H.J.
Cat No. : 62360, Published : OCT 2025, Illustrations : 101 col illus
Hardback £35.00
For the first time, Kew's recovered collections of Indian botanical art are brought together with the remarkable stories that they tell - of the artists who painted them, the colonial context in (more)
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by Perrone, J.
Cat No. : 61464, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 100 illus
Hardback £30.00
Poisonous plants have intrigued and beguiled humans throughout history, and this book will take readers on a world tour of 50 of the most toxic and fascinating species of plants and fungi. The book (more)
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by Fortey, Richard
Cat No. : 62960, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 16 col plates; b/w illus
Paperback £10.99
The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don’t obey rules. They pop up unbidden and often dressed in curious reds (more)
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by Fretwell, P.; Fretwell, L.
Cat No. : 62411, Published : 2025
Hardback £14.99
A charming and beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved bird, written by a leading scientist at The British Antarctic Survey, illustrated by his wife. There’s something about (more)
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by Lafferty, J.
Cat No. : 61463, Published : 2025, Illustrations : col photos
Hardback £22.00
From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet for all that familiarity, what do we really know about them? This (more)
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by Gregory, P.
Cat No. : 62148, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 1800+ illus, 800 col maps
Hardback £49.99
£56.00 (Save £6.01)
Cat No. : 62126, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 1800+ illus, 800 col maps
Paperback £49.99
£56.00 (Save £6.01)
2nd fully revised edition. New Guinea is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with an extraordinary diversity of bird species, including a remarkable number of endemics found nowhere else on Earth. This (more)
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by Ploszajski, T.
Cat No. : 63372, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 399 col photos
Hardback £50.00
A new avifauna, produced by Bedfordshire Bird Club and entitled The Birds of Bedfordshire, has been written by Tony Ploszajski. At over 500 pages, and with 399 colour photographs, it describes (more)
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by Slater, C.A.; Mundy, P.J.; Williams, R.B.
Cat No. : 61363, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 140 col illus
Hardback £39.99
This book details the life of John Henry Gurney (1819-1890) who became a successful banker when still young. His wealth enabled him to indulge his passion for collecting natural history specimens, (more)
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by Taylor, M.
Cat No. : 61482, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 100 col photos
Hardback £20.00
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Second edition. A celebration of British raptors, following their fortunes as British breeding birds from historical times to the present day, illustrated with 100 colour photographs. This book is (more)
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by Wilkey, R.; Nann, S.
Cat No. : 61698, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 350 col illus
Paperback £22.00
This field guide offers a complete account of all 63 snake species recorded in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Each species is illustrated with stunning photographs, over 300 (more)
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by Harding, A.
Cat No. : 62967, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 30+ col illus
Hardback £12.99
This is the final book in a stunning seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding. Each title in this pocket-sized series takes readers on a journey through the seasons, (more)
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by Harding-Morris, J.
Cat No. : 62384, Published : 2025, Illustrations : b/w illus
Hardback £15.99
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Meet the rare, obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth. Around 70,000 species call Britain home, but how many of them can be found here and only here? Join conservationist (more)
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by Holden, E.
Cat No. : 63286, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 80 col illus
Hardback £17.95
£22.95 (Save £5.00)
The perfect book for those who loved Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady and all lovers of nature and nature writing. The writing and paintings, created at the same time as those for Country (more)
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by Pavelle, S.
Cat No. : 62453, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 8 b/w illus
Hardback £16.00
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A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships, some comforting and familiar, others wildly alien, by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not. What can nature teach us about (more)
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by Parr, K.
Cat No. : 63156, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 10 b/w illus
Hardback £14.99
£17.99 (Save £3.00)
Many are unaware that scorpions, Aesculapian snakes, eagle owls, wallabies and many more unusual non-native species are living and breeding in the British Isles - but here they are. In this book, (more)
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by Toosey, W.
Cat No. : 63504, Published : OCT 2025, Illustrations : 900+ col illus
Paperback £34.99
Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs (with the exception of their descendants, the birds) disappeared from the face of the Earth. The ensuing Cenozoic Era, or the 'Age of Mammals', which (more)
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by Donovan, S.K.
Cat No. : 60664, Published : 2025
Paperback £29.99
Fossils on the Seashore aims to introduce the specimen-rich wonderland of the coast to nascent palaeontologists. (more)
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by Moore, J.D.
Cat No. : 63284, Published : 2025, Illustrations : 73 col illus, 3 b/w illus
Hardback £23.00
£30.00 (Save £7.00)
For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings and cave paintings; were venerated as gods in (more)
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by Moussus, J.-P.
Cat No. : 61870, Published : NOV 2025, Illustrations : 1500 col photos, 300 distribution maps
Paperback £25.99
£35.00 (Save £9.01)
A comprehensive photographic field guide to the butterflies and caterpillars of Britain and Western Europe - as well as the Canaries, the Azores, Madeira, and Cyprus. This is the first field (more)
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by McPherson, S.; Golos, M.R.; Mey, F.S.; Brewer-Carias, C.; Wistuba, A.; Nerz, J.; Wrazidlo, M.; Fleischmann, A.; Plachno, B.
Cat No. : 60931, Published : DEC 2025, Illustrations : 1100 col photos, b/w illus
Hardback £119.99
Three decades in the making, this is the seminal treatise on the beautiful genus Heliamphora. This work is crammed full of new discoveries, new observations, new information and hundreds of (more)
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by Attenborough, D.
Cat No. : 63503, Published : NOV 2025
£75.00
David Attenborough’s Life Trilogy is a complete introduction to the animals and plants found on Earth. The three books - published to accompany the classic BBC TV series - are essential reading for (more)
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by Yahr, R.; Stoakley, F.
Cat No. : 61980, Published : DEC 2025, Illustrations : 800+ col illus, 132 distribution maps
Paperback £20.00
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An intuitive introduction to 200 of the most common and conspicuous species that beginners can learn to identify with nothing more than a magnifying lens and some practice. Lichens can be found all (more)
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by Forbes, D.; Campbell, I.; Morris, P.
Cat No. : 62362, Published : DEC 2025, Illustrations : col photos, col illus, col distribution maps
Paperback £22.50
£30.00 (Save £7.50)
The essential field guide to all of Europe’s major habitats - visually stunning, meticulously researched, and packed with invaluable information. Europe is a place of natural wonders, from the icy (more)
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by Omkar
Cat No. : 63274, Published : DEC 2025, Illustrations : 73 col + 17 b/w illus
Hardback £105.00
Several flies, like Drosophila, are quite useful as model organisms and have been used in research for centuries. They have unravelled several mysteries in the areas of Genetics, Developmental (more)
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