Things to want and wish for

Bookshop browse KEEPING TIME How Nature Keeps Time by Helen Pilcher Mayflies, who live and die in a single day, and ancient trees, whose existences span generations, are keeping time, but at a different pace. Helen Pilcher’s endlessly fascinating book, brimful of facts, and illustrated with accessible charts and diagrams, is an investigation into the way nature marks time – from those giddy mayflies to elder trees, she tackles growth, distance, age, reproduction, sleep and death, teasing out the interconnectedness of the natural world. She heads back to the fossil record and ancient history, explains the regeneration of landscapes ravaged by wildfire, identifies the slowest growing plant and describes the long-lived life of the immortal jellyfish. (Bloomsbury) Shopkeeper of the month Keeping it in the family A lifestyle shop that remembers its past while looking forwards Based…