The perfect gift for avid readers and deep thinkers looking to escape busy modern lives, this subscription mixes nature, travel, folklore and philosophy, and features twelve books throughout the year, along with live conversations with selected authors.

We're biased, but the Deep Reads subscription really is where the magic happens.

Choose the first three books to suit the intended reader, from our favourite features from the past decade - bestsellers, cult classics, award winners and overlooked geniuses - to be followed by mystery books from future seasons (none of those pictured here).

For those who know there is an innate connection between our lungs and the leaves of trees.

Amy Jane-Beer, aka the Guardian's Country Diarist, invites us to rediscover our place in nature by following water flowing through the landscape in Flow, her award-winning, and deeply moving, hymn to the rivers of Britain.

Paired with the subsequent winner of the Wainwright Prize, Late Light is a love letter to an entirely new nature from recent immigrant to the UK Michael Malay. The familiar and forgotten of British natural history - from moths to mussels, eels and crickets - becomes surreally vibrant viewed through these fresh eyes.

For those who wish to sit at the feet of indigenous thinkers from around the globe

Martin Shaw is an unsurpassable storyteller. That's what happens when you walk away from it all and spend years staring into the fire whilst living in a tent pitched in a mystic corner of England. Returning like an ancient sage, Shaw unearths the truths of our oldest tales in new stories and myths crafted by and for our age.

Chafing against the rational western world, and even the idea of capturing knowledge in such limited form as a book, Tyson Yunkaporta offers an illuminating interpretation of Aboriginal Australia and its dramatic way of engaging with the world. There are radical reads, and then there's Sand Talk.

For those watching the planet burn and wondering how we might heal.

John Vaillant's Fire Weather tells an award-winning story from the frontline of climate change, the 'unprecedented' firestorm that destroyed a Canadian oil town, as he examines how we'll cope in an ever hotter world. An urgent examination of humanity's future.

Burnt out by high profile, high stakes, activism, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Tamsin Omond, retreated to the wilds of Scotland to reflect on how we really heal. Do Earth captures and builds on their reflection that the global crisis is too big for activists alone to solve. Their prescription for healing is one that needs everyone. Heard earned wisdom about how to play our part in planetary healing.

For those who know that our stories have us cornered in an unsustainable and unfulfilling future, and who long for a way through.

As a favourite book of Barack Obama, Jenny Odell's How To Do Nothing is much more than an invitation to turn off and drop out, it's a radical manifesto for reclaiming our sense of self, and thus our agency in the world.

Recovering adman Jon Alexander has an innate understanding of story, how it drives us and how it constrains us. In his underground hit, Citizens, he helps us understand which stories can carry us forward and which we must leave behind.

For those who want more from adventure stories than grimy tales of conquest and grit.

Claire Nelson's tale of her near-death experience hiking in Joshua Tree National Park remains one of our curator Tim's favourite stories; a remarkable reminder to treasure the things that really matter in life, wrung vividly from a moment when all seemed lost.

She may have been one of the first non-indigenous people to reach the source of the Amazon, not just in an all-female team, but Pip Stewart's account of her adventures in the remote Amazonian Rain Forest is more than just an amazing achievement. Her soul-searching account of how she was changed by the journey offers life lessons we can all learn from, even without the terrifying encounters and flesh-eating parasites.

Sarah Hall's Helm is one of our infrequent fiction features, because sometimes we need to surrender to the arc of the story, and this is some journey. Helm brings to life the UK's only named wind, the Helm which furies down the side of Cross Fell, as the elemental character engages which folk from across the centuries from clerics burning with brimstone to climate scientists divining our future from the wind's fortunes. Remarkable writing.