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The Return of the Sun: Suicide and Reclamation Among Inuit of Arctic Canada by Michael J. Kral 9780190269333
€67.50Inuit have among the highest suicide rates in the world - ten times the national average. Inuit narratives of suicide provide clues as to what can and in some cases has been done to combat the problem, but until recently they have not circulated far... -
Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
RRP: €11.89€8.46A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive . . . tender,... -
Landscapes of the National Trust by Ben Cowell
RRP: €35.70€33.65A hymn to the British landscape. From the dramatic hills of the Lake District to the beaches and covers of Cornwall, this richly illustrated book brings together new perspectives on the places that have inspired artists, writers and film-makers and... -
Old Number Five by Castle Freeman
RRP: €10.70€7.29Lucian Wing is the sheriff of a backwoods county in Vermont, a hardscrabble place far from the picture-postcard gaze. He is also a man with a problem. Multiple problems, in fact, including a threatening superior; a wandering wife; a hard-drinking... -
News from Somewhere: On Settling by Roger Scruton 9780826490919
RRP: €16.65€13.14For a number of years, Roger Scruton has contributed a weekly article to the "Financial Times" on country matters. Always beautifully written, one of these pieces ("Vegetables") won the 2002 prize from The Queen's English Society for the best piece of... -
Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks Tom Chesshyre 9781800070097
RRP: €20.22€13.73If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks As horizons shrank, we took stock. At first, a sense of panic set in: nowhere to go, nothing to do... Then we all went to the park, and we realized something: we need greenery -... -
Hard Knocks & Soft Spots by Paddy Doherty
RRP: €15.46€10.82'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.'Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy... -
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald 9780060914288
RRP: €19.03€17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060914288Author Betty MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Rural by Roy Homburg 9780415442404
RRP: €47.59€41.72The division of 'rural' and 'urban' is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture. Throughout history, the rural has been attributed with many meanings: as a source of food and energy; as a pristine wilderness, or as a... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: €35.64€34.19An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the... -
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography by Henri Lefebvre 9781517904692
RRP: €28.55€24.80A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre's crucial but lesser-known writings on rural... -
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm by Alex Blanchette
RRP: €27.36€23.81In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been... -
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting
RRP: €35.64€23.65Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring... -
Country House Life: A century in photographs by Elizabeth Drury
RRP: €17.84€12.02A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the National Trust's historic properties depicting life in Britain's country homes and estates. An intriguing look at the life that was led in the country homes and estates now... -
Don't Worry He Doesn't Bite by Liam Mulvin
RRP: €14.28€10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723425Author Liam MulvinFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 384g -
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 9780691216430
RRP: €19.03€15.36Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has... -
Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival John Klar 9781645022190
RRP: €23.80€15.89From farmer, lawyer and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams and social-justice platitudes of the dominant, Liberal "Green" agenda - offering a healthy way forward for... -
The Speculations of Country People by Majella Kelly
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Ruminative and enigmatic . . . powerful' Simon Armitage'Tenderly inquisitive . . . a powerful poetry of witness . . . full of discovery' Alycia Pirmohamed'Majella Kelly offers so much: ecstatic lyricism . . . emotional excavation and virtuosic skill' ... -
The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
RRP: €15.46€10.09In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet."Captures the complex... -
Horseman Pass by! by Michel Deon
RRP: €11.90€9.73These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John... -
Johnny Kingdom's West Country Tales by Johnny Kingdom
RRP: €13.08€9.25There are few people better acquainted with the West Country than Johnny Kingdom. His knowledge of local wildlife is second to none, but he's also a fount of knowledge when it comes to all the old stories that get passed down from generation to... -
A Community Empowerment Approach to Heritage Management: From Values Assessment to Local Engagement Evangelos Kyriakidis 9781032083124
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book presents an innovative approach to public archaeology in a rural community, which has had powerful results in terms of empowering a village community in Crete to become long-term guardians of their cultural heritage. Highlighting the... -
How to See Nature by Paul Evans 9781849944939
RRP: €20.22€14.28A beautifully lyrical collection of essays on the natural world in Britain by the Guardian's country diary writer Paul Evans. With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. It is a book both for those that... -
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Michael Foley 9781603588003
RRP: €20.22€13.73It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated... -
Butting Heads in Spain: Lady Goatherder by Diane Elliott 9781922476562
RRP: €15.46€14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922476562Author Diane ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ant PressPublisher Ant PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain by Linda M. Ross 9780197267455
€99.23In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materially transformed in the post-war decades. Reservoirs, power stations, television and radio-transmitter... -
My Homeplace Inheritance: Soda Farls, Apple Tarts and Other Recipes for Life from My Irish Country Childhood by Susan Farrell
RRP: €11.89€9.72Susan Farrell's evocative account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh and Tyrone, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons. Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as... -
A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters by Stephen Witmer 9780830841554
RRP: €21.41€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830841554Author Stephen WitmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)... -
Changing Rural Life: A Christian Response to Life and Work in the Countryside by Jeremy Martineau 9781853115998
€25.30A prestigious and significant volume offering theological relection on a wide range of issues relating to the countryside, the rural economy and rural life. At a time when it has been officially recognised that British society is deeply uninformed about... -
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
RRP: €16.65€12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307274977Author Sam ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
How the World Changed Social Media by Elisabetta Costa 9781910634486
RRP: €17.85€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634486Author Daniel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 425g -
Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt by Jayaseelan Raj 9781800082281
RRP: €23.80€20.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082281Author Jayaseelan RajFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g -
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance 9780062300553
RRP: €21.41€11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062300553Author J D VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind by Grace Olmstead
RRP: €29.74€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593084021Author Grace OlmsteadFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse 9781631494512
RRP: €15.46€11.78Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith wasn't lighting fires alone: his crimes were galvanised... -
An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
RRP: €20.22€14.22In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. 330 and falling). It's a typical European village where the shops are closing down, the few children left will escape to a less arduous life in the city and it's... -
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover 9780525563280
RRP: €22.61€14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563280Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 237g -
The English Meadow: A Portrait of Country Life by Yvette Verner
RRP: €15.41€10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903998670Author Yvette VernerFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books -
Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques by Alistair Harkness
RRP: €47.59€41.72Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the extensive economic and social costs of rural crime as well as to challenge some of the myths regarding the... -
Lairds, Land and Sustainability: Scottish Perspectives on Upland Management by Jayne Glass
RRP: €34.50€32.02This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership. Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland, with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land...