Entangled Life

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021*
*WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRTITING 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.

'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer
'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times
'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane
'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald
'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)
'Wonderful' Nigella Lawson
'A magical writer' Russell Brand
'This book is like one surprise after another' David Byrne
'Uplifting' Jeanette Winterson

* A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *

©Merlin Sheldrake 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

After this book, nothing will seem the same again . . . beautifully written and illustrated . . . dazzling . . . reveals a world that’s both more extraordinary and more delicate than could be imagined

Mail on Sunday

Riveting and surprising at every turn . . . A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure

New Statesman

Wondrous . . . Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth’s marvels

Time, Books of the Year

Mind-boggling . . . It’s tempting . . . to see fungi as the biological model for a better world

Telegraph

Truly astounding . . . An engrossing, captivating journey

Spectator

Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing . . . it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder

Irish Times

One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you . . . revelatory . . . astounding . . . and brimming with infectious joy

HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk

A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world . . . I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic

GEORGE MONBIOT

Blew my mind . . . Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world

ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature

Astonishing . . . it’s impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck

ANDREW MOTION, TLS Books of the Year

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