• Entangled Life

  • How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
  • By: Merlin Sheldrake
  • Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (156 ratings)

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Entangled Life

By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

*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.

* A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *

©2020 Merlin Sheldrake (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane

'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald

'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)

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Deeply inspiring

A deeply inspiring book that changes one’s perception of the world just below the leaves

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Extremely entertaining education

Warning, this book may well change your life. Don't let that stop you. 😊

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Extraordinary

Sheldrake's fungal presentation delivers winding connections that motor our world, and thoroughly challenges the myopia of strict identities on the way. This is a book I wouldn't be surprised to find as becoming a hallmark of thinking for a healthy future.

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A book for our times

We now know how strongly narratives permeate our lives and society - but very few books ever truly illustrate how the many threads of all those stories, facts and discoveries are intertwined, by example, while educating and entertaining with the ease of a genuine master. Merlin is not just a supremely knowledgeable mycologist, but also an elegant and insightful master of his field. I have been informed, entertained and motivated to learn more. And there could be no better narrator. The mushroom talks!

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Fascinating info

I find the new (meaning since my high school biology class) on fungi and the interdependence between them and plants fascinating. This book is a good overview with many perspectives on the topic. Unfortunately the author is not the best narrator for his book - his voice is a bit soporific.

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Easily a second listen

Absolutely captivating, well narrated by author, unveiling a magical connected world essential to all living and dead organisms.

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One of the best books ever!

Merlin Sheldrake has a surprisingly philysophical way of describing the the topics in his book. He dares to speculate about scientifical findings and questions but he does it in a very nuanced way. He uses personal stories to explain his work and way of thinking, which made listening to the audiobook a pleasure.
I have listened to the audiobook twice and am now planning on reading it too.

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Makes me sleepy

I appreciate the book being read by the author, but his voice makes me so sleepy. I hadn’t experienced something like this. I cannot focus on what he is saying, I just want to sleep. If I listed during the day, it deprives me of energy, if at night I fall asleep.

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Mind blowing and eye opening

Brilliant story with phenomenal detail ans information. A book every person should listen too. Awesome that the author was the narrator

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Lo ved it. I am a mushroom lover

Magical, Full of knowledge. I will probably listen to it again at some point.

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