Watership Down is one of my favorite novels, and is a truly beautiful story which resists genre classification and escapes all labels; it can and is read both by adults and children, who derive from it equal amounts of pleasure. The eponymous bees are not simply an observable aspect of the world that Charlie lives in, but have become their own collective character with an important role in the story. Nevertheless, many species are declining, and efforts to help determine distributions and changes in abundance have so far been hampered by a serious lack of identification resources. Paull’s writing is often lyrical and the reader is carried along with Flora as she experiences through smells, and sounds and her other “bee senses” what drives the hive’s efforts and protects it from harm.

One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of Sherlock Holmes’s journey from the streets of London to the White House of Abraham Lincoln and, in company with a freed slave named after the dead President, their breathtaking pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. Lily finds out that May had a twin sister, April, who died by suicide with their father's shotgun when they were younger.There were parts which seemed like it just skipped, and I felt that she just jumped jobs too easily. It is a castle complete, from corridors and antechambers, secret passageways and nurseries, great halls where tales are told in a furious shuffle of delicate feet and trembling antennae, and orgies of nectar unfold amidst throbbing abdomens and gaping spiracles. The story of what would happen to our ecosystem if one key species disappeared with tips on how children can protect our natural resources.

Then she finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.

Their hive characterized by drama and high stakes, intelligence and a sophisticated organization that is a marvel to study and behold. POD is my latest novel, and I only now realise I have written a trilogy, because bees led me to pollinators led me to climate change led me to the Arctic led me to whaling led me to cetacean societies and the migration crisis in the ocean. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil rights era of the American South. However, while I applaud the adaptation of my novel, and I was moved by the final kiss (two beautiful women together, proud and public, while people tut and stare), I am not in love with the ending.

Lawrence Matthews has really captured the essence of Watson’s character and has brought him marvellously to life.She is disturbingly different, but willing and intelligent, and fervently devoted to her Holy Mother the Queen.

Plenty of bumblebee natural history, and covers most British species even though it’s only about Essex bees.This is the story of two rival tribes of dolphins, the massive and boorish bottlenose, and the far small, cultured and peace-loving tribe of spinners. But she was born with abilities that make her special, such as a fantastic sense of smell and the ability to speak, which makes her a curiosity to those in power. She had a twin sister, April, who committed suicide when she was 15, and as a result of April's death she is emotionally sensitive. In my opinion the comparison doesn't hold, and is unfair to both books - The Bees truly looses when compared to this novel, and I'll explain why. Overall, this book was fast and easy to read, highly informative about bees, and maybe worth it if you like weird and interesting things to puzzle over and dissect, but as a piece of literature, I think The Bees is too confused to be of much value.