Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist; A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World,” has been selected by Blackwell’s as their pick for the non-fiction Book of the Month for July 2025.
Why Fish Don’t Exist is Blackwell’s Pick for July
Memoir
A Walk to London
In 1819, the renowned Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray walked from Aberdeen, Scotland to London, England in order to visit the natural history collection at the British Museum. If the modern M6 had been available to him, this would be a distance of 548 miles – one way. However because Mr. MacGillivray took a more scenic route that included Ben Nevis, the distance he walked totaled 837 miles; a distance he covered in approximately eight weeks.
Fox & I
For many of us who love being out in nature, the sensation we feel when we find ourselves able to achieve even a fleeting moment of particularly deep and meaningful connection with an animal, a plant, or perhaps even the land itself is difficult to put into words. So imagine the challenge of doing so when for years one has had the extraordinary privilege of being able to sit down with a wild animal.
The Wheel
“I hadn’t had my daily dose of lurking frogs and chirruping goldfinch flocks for so long now. I hadn’t sat on a bank of moss and grounded my energy into the earth. Instead of wildflower meadows, my dreams were often preoccupied with train timetables and unsaved Word documents. Where had all the wildlife gone from my life?” So writes Jennifer Lane very early in her new book “The Wheel.”