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 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 *