He's passionate, deeply knowledgeable and a wonderful writer ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of The Sixth ExtinctionĪ triumph and a thing of vast beauty TOM HODGKINSON, The Idler It rolled over me like a tsunami, leaving the landscape rearranged but all the more beautiful NICHOLAS HUMPHREY, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, LSE, author of Soul Dustįungi are everywhere, and Merlin Sheldrake is an ideal guide to their mysteries. I was completely unprepared for Sheldrake’s book. Entangled Life is a must read for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share PAUL STAMETS, author of Mycelium Running Merlin is an expert storyteller, weaving the tale of our co-evolution with fungi into a scientific adventure. With elegance, wit and clarity Sheldrake engages us in the hidden world of fungi, a miraculous web of connections, interactions and communication that changes the way we need to look at life, the planet and ourselves ISABELLA TREE, author of WildingĪ magical journey deep into the roots of Nature. It is a radical, hopeful and important book and I couldn’t put it down.

Sheldrake asks us to consider a life-form that is radically alien to ours, yet vibrant and lively underfoot HANS ULRICH OBRISTĮntangled Life is a revelation. 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. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland 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. Sentence after sentence stopped me short. * A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year * Read moreĪ dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book.

'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald 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.

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.

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021 Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake