The long summer nights hold the promise of sitting outside, enjoying the twilight with a book in one hand and a glass of something refreshing in the other 鈥� or heading on holiday knowing you鈥檝e got a great read in your luggage.
Enter our competition and you could win eight fabulous nature and natural history books to keep you enthralled until Christmas.
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One lucky winner will be spoiled for choice as to which of these fascinating subjects to explore first: beautiful fireflies or the misunderstood timber rattlesnake; the surprising intelligence of birds or the perfection of their eggs; or classic British hedgerows, with a side order of dry stone walls (just how do they stay up?).
Alternatively, be thrilled by accounts of first encounters with the exotic (how would you describe a lychee? Or a chameleon?). Or read the fascinating stories of an American novelist and naturalist who was an ornithological contemporary of Darwin, but is more revered in Argentina than his adopted homeland of England, and the ecologist who studied sea otters to learn about the impact of top-level predators.
There can only be one winner, who will receive a copy of all eight books:
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and outside) a bird鈥檚 egg by Tim Birkhead
- Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins: First encounters with the exotic by Claire Cock-Starkey
- by James A. Estes
- by Ted Levin
- by Sara Lewis
- A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls by John Wright
- by Jason Wilson
For your chance to win, just answer the following question: what order of insects do fireflies belong to?
Send your answer, name and postal address聽to: competitions@newscientist.com. The closing date for entries is 23.59(GMT) on Thursday 30聽June 2016. Terms and conditions apply (see below).
Only subscribers and registered users are eligible to win, so be sure to log in or register before you enter.
Terms and conditions
1. This competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over, except for employees of Reed Business Information Limited and any company involved in the sponsorship of the competition.
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3. Every entrant will be entered into a draw to win the eight books featured on this page. Prizes cannot be exchanged, are non-transferable, non-divisible and no cash or other alternatives are available. Entrants must supply a valid mailing address.
4. Only one entry is permitted per person. No purchase is necessary.
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6. Entries must be received by 23.59 GMT on 30 June 2016. Entries made after this time will not be counted.
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10. You hereby warrant that your entry will not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening.
11. Winners鈥� names are available by writing to 鈥淪ummer 2016 nature book competition鈥�, 快猫短视频, 110 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6EU.
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