Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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 '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 *