Entangled Life

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 WRITING 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''This book is like one surprise after another'' David Byrne''Uplifting'' Jeanette Winterson*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021** A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *