in the last two decades

and later the San Francisco post-punk bands Sleeping Dogs and Brain Rust

evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism

and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen

Feral Borough Karatsu in the last two decadesSet in the urban pastoral of an East London postcode, Feral Borough asks what it means to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non human inhabitants. Meryl Pugh reimagines the wild as feral, recording the fauna and flora of Leytonstone in prose as incisive as it is lyrical. Here, on the edge of the city, red kite and parakeets thrive alongside bluebell and yarrow, a muntjac deer is glimpsed in the undergrowth, and an escaped boa