Jamie Richards

Our connection to nature is deeply rooted in the history of our evolution. And yet, we have less contact with green space now than ever, and our stress and anxiety levels are at an all-time high. "The secret therapy of trees" helps us rediscover the restorative value of our natural environment and presents the science behind green therapies like forest bathing and bioenergetic landscapes, explaining which are the most effective and how to put them...

Guido and his pals Moreno and Katango are rebels without a cause living in a rural town of the Po Valley, a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside turned peripheral wasteland. Disaffected students of the local vocational high school, they spend their days trying to get high as a way to forget about the bleak hopelessness around them. As children, they enjoyed being the sons of rural folks and the country seemed to them a never-ending reservoir...

One Story is actually made of two intricately entangled tales. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters,...

Quick, Dora, we have to get out of here. The Great Invasion had swept across the mainland, forcing most to flee. Some took refuge on a small island - Celestia - built of concrete over a thousand years ago. Now completely isolated from the rest of the world, its become an outpost for criminals and other outcasts, including two young telepaths, Dora and Pierrot. That is, until they are forced to escape the island and confront the unknown that awaits...

"This timely tale of an endless war between humans and nature follows young orphan Gert, whose land is shrouded in a thick fog which hides ferocious, fantastical animals that besiege her village. Gert sets out to make sure no one else suffers what she has as a result of the war, but to do this she'll have to do what is forbidden of young women like her: become a warrior. Unfazed, Gert sneaks into the initiation test, beginning an adventure that will...

A lone, defenseless pupa has rained down from the sky. An assembly of talking birds and trees agree to protect "Bitsy" as it begins to evolve but into what? As the humanoid creature starts showing a predilection for flight and music, magical clues start unveiling themselves. Nymph gets to the heart of both human and Mother Nature to prove that, to raise a child-like larva, it takes a village. Or at least a forest.