The smash-hit Sunday Times and#1 Amazon Charts bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.'Dazzling vibrant vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The 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.'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' Sunday Times'Urgent astounding and necessary' Helen MacdonaldPerfect for fans of David Attenborough's The Green Planet and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben* A Sunday Times Daily Telegraph New Statesman The Times Evening Standard Mail on Sunday BBC Science Focus TLS and Time Book of the Year * | 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 | Riveting and surprising at every turn. .. A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure | Wondrous. .. Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels | Mind-boggling. .. It's tempting. .. to see fungi as the biological model for a better world | Truly astoun... See more

The smash-hit Sunday Times and#1 Amazon Charts bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.'Dazzling vibrant vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The 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.'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' Sunday Times'Urgent astounding and necessary' Helen MacdonaldPerfect for fans of David Attenborough's The Green Planet and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben* A Sunday Times Daily Telegraph New Statesman The Times Evening Standard Mail on Sunday BBC Science Focus TLS and Time Book of the Year * | 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 | Riveting and surprising at every turn. .. A sensory as well as an intellectual pleasure | Wondrous. .. Humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth's marvels | Mind-boggling. .. It's tempting. .. to see fungi as the biological model for a better world | Truly astounding. .. An engrossing, captivating journey | Gorgeous, intelligent, utterly absorbing. .. it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder | One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you. .. revelatory. .. astounding. .. and brimming with infectious joy | A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world. .. I hope and trust that it will become an instant classic | Blew my mind. .. Essential reading. Go and get swept up in a new world | Astonishing. .. it's impossible to finish this book without feeling awestruck | Delightful to read but also grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world | Sentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world - the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom - and the earth-shaking, hierarchy-breaking implications of Sheldrake's argument. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer | A revelation. .. Changes the way we need to look at life, the planet and ourselves | Wonderfully written. .. surprising. .. The best science writing invites people to view the world around them in a new way, and Entangled Life is a perfect example | This is a book that, by virtue of the power of its writing, shifts your sense of the human. .. It will inspire a generation | I have been working on and reading and writing about fungi for a decade. And yet, nearly every page of this book contained either an observation so interesting or a turn of phrase so lovely that I was moved to slow down, stop, and reread. .. This book rocked me into remembering that nature, especially fungal nature, is big and encompassing and creative and destructive. It reminded me that fungi are, like the Universe, sublime | A magical journey deep into the roots of Nature by an expert storyteller. .. a must-read for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share | Reading this book, I felt surrounded by a web of wonder. The natural world is more fantastic than any fantasy, so long as you have the means to perceive it. This book provides the means | You may never look at fungi in the same way. .. an eye-opening exploration of this mysterious taxonomic kingdom. .. a journey into an untapped world. It is both a wonderful collection of fungal feats. . and a personal account of Sheldrake's experiences with these miraculous organisms | Brilliant. .. entrancing. .. when we look closely [at fungi], we meet large, unsettling questions. .. Merlin Sheldrake. .. carries us easily into these questions with ebullience and precision. .. challenging some of our deepest assumptions | A joy. .. a captivating trip into the weird and wonderful mycorrhizal world around us - and inside us. .. full of startling revelations | The oddest and most uplifting book. .. It is, to say the least, rare to find such a vast area of life on Earth - fungi - about which one knows almost nothing, and which gives promise of being so important to human life during our next century | If you had told me a book about fungi would be both enthralling and completely mind-blowing, I wouldn't have believed you. And yet. Dazzlingly good | It is impossible to put this book down. Entangled Life provides a window into the mind-boggling biology and fascinating cultures surrounding fungal life, as well as fungi's innumerable uses in materials, medicine and ecology. Sheldrake asks us to consider a life-form that is radically alien to ours, yet vibrant and lively underfoot | A triumph and a thing of vast beauty | Fungi are everywhere, and Merlin Sheldrake is an ideal guide to their mysteries. He's passionate, deeply knowledgeable and a wonderful writer | Deeply engaging and constantly surprising. .. the magic of mushrooms is not merely mind-expanding. .. it might expand the very concept of mind | As hard to put down as a thrilling detective novel, and one of the best works of popular science writing that I have enjoyed in years | A fascinating insight into the world beneath our feet and the "wood-wide web "of fungi | The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your 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*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.'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 * The smash-hit Sunday Times and#1 Amazon Charts bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.'Dazzling vibrant vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The 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.'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' Sunday Times'Urgent astounding and necessary' Helen MacdonaldPerfect for fans of David Attenborough's The Green Planet and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben* A Sunday Times Daily Telegraph New Statesman The Times Evening Standard Mail on Sunday BBC Science Focus TLS and Time Book of the Year *