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The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his... -
Deer Island by Neil Ansell 9781915068330
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell lived in a series of squats and derelict buildings across London. Becoming part of a floating community of rough sleepers and volunteers, who found purpose... -
Four Hedges by Clare Leighton 9780956254535
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford,... -
Common Treasures Book One: Land, Food and Farming by Amica Dall 9781915068491
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80This is an anthology of writing from people who are engaged in practical, hands-on work to transform land, food and farming systems in the UK at grassroots level. They are bound together by a passion... -
The Lost Orchards: Rediscovering the forgotten apple varieties of Dorset by Liz Copas
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.65About two-thirds of Britain's small, traditional orchards have been lost since 1960. This is a loss in ecological diversity, in community knowledge and the intricacy of local distinctiveness. In... -
All Around the Year by Michael Morpurgo 9781915068224
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries,... -
My House of Sky: A Life of J A Baker by Hetty Saunders 9781908213495
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Since his rise to fame in 1967 when his work "The Peregrine" was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, J A Baker has captured the popular imagination with his vivid descriptions of British... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 9781908213952
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.57To celebrate Richard Mabey's 80th birthday, a reissue of the seminal Nature Cure, originally published in 2005 to great acclaim. At the height of his career, having recently published Flora... -
In the Country by Kenneth Allsop 9781908213044
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04At the end of the 1960s, Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled amid the sunken lanes, ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. He... -
Set My Hand Upon The Plough by E. M. Barraud 9781915068323
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of... -
Landfill Tim Dee 9781915068040
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21The unlikely stars of Landfill are gulls. No, not seagulls. Gulls. Over the past century gulls have been brought ashore by modernity, living in our slipstream, following trawlers, ploughs and now... -
Black Apples of Gower Iain Sinclair 9781908213457
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by... -
Elowen by William Henry Searle 9781915068194
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.57In the summer of 2017, Will and his wife Amy lost their baby, Elowen, a few days before their due date. After a traumatic induced birth, they returned from hospital to their cottage in the New... -
Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies 9781908213006
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $15.34Wild Life in a Southern County traces the course of a spring which rises on an Iron Age hillfort and gradually broadens into a brook, flows through a nearby village and hamlet, skirts a solitary... -
The Military Orchid Jocelyn Brooke 9781908213051
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Jocelyn Brooke's love affair with wild flowers and home-made fireworks began when he was growing up in Kent and exploring the countryside of the the Elham Valley. But there was one particular flower,... -
Beyond the Fell Wall by Richard Skelton 9781908213587
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.55Richard Skelton spent nearly half a decade living in a small valley high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, in northern England. When not writing or composing music, most of his days were spent... -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty 9781908213792
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.77Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild... -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the happiest of all his books... -
Cornerstones: Subterranean writings; from Dartmoor to the Arctic Circle by Mark Smalley 9781908213631
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite city" to... -
Snow by Marcus Sedgwick 9781908213402
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21Of all weathers, snow is the one that has always affected Marcus Sedgwick the most. While many people's idea of the perfect holiday involves sun, sea an sand, he instead makes trips to cold, snowy... -
brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe 9781915068057
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.67Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities. He hadn't established an independent life in the care system and was still struggling to accept that he had Down's... -
Limestone Country 9781915068415
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Limestone Country is a perceptive, lyrical evocation and investigation into four landscapes in Europe and beyond. Seemingly disparate these places are bound together by their limestone geology, by... -
An English Farmhouse Geoffrey Grigson 9781908213754
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Originally published in 1948, and edited by the artist John Piper, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse, and its associated buildings, whether made... -
Orison for a Curlew: In Search of a Bird on the Edge of Extinction by Horatio Clare 9781908213570
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37The Slender-billed Curlew, Numenius tenuirostris, 'the slim beak of the new moon', is one of the world's rarest birds. It once bred in Siberia and wintered in the Mediterranean basin, passing through... -
Exchange by Kay Syrad 9781908213341
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our times. In recent years, several family-run farms in the downlands of West Dorset have decided to radically change... -
Archie's Apple by Hannah Shuckburgh 9781915068064
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Have you ever dreamed of making a discovery? Inspired by a true story, Archie's Apple tells of how one boy discovers a new variety of apple while out walking, and hits the headlines around the world... -
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime England Ken Worpole 9781908213860
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80On 'Lady Day', March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating, a hamlet on the Essex Tendring Peninsula. There they established a working community, inspired by... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John... -
A Sculpture That Sings: The Art of the Bell by Orlando Gough 9781915068385
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80A Sculpture that Sings is a unique book about church bells, bell-ringing and the place of the tradition in the English landscape and its communities. In 2017 the artist David Ward and the composer... -
Ring of Bright Water by 9780956254504
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80In 1957, after travelling in southern Iraq, Gavin Maxwell returned to the West Highlands of Scotland with an otter cub called Mijbil. Written within thew sound of the sea, in a remote cottage where... -
Made in England by Dorothy Hartley 9781908213600
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80First published in 1939, Made in England is a book about the crafts and people of the cottage industries of England, from the social historian, illustrator and photographer Dorothy Hartley. In the... -
Deer Island by Neil Ansell 9781908213136
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.58At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell chose a life of voluntary poverty working for the Simon Community, a charity with radical approaches to helping homeless people. He lived in squats and... -
The Unofficial Countryside Richard Mabey 9780956254559
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04During the early 1970s Richard Mabey set about mapping his unofficial countryside. He walked crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb sites, navigating inner city canals and car parks, exploring... -
A Shepherd's Life by W. H. Hudson 9780956254573
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of humble birth - poachers, gypsies, farmers and... -
Herbaceous by Paul Evans 9781908213594
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.55As climate change erodes the familiar pattern of the seasons, we turn instinctively to the life cycles of herbaceous plants to guide us through the year. The growing, flowering, seeding and dying... -
The Screaming Sky: in pursuit of swifts by 9781915068002
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.21Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, 2021. Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the earth like nothing else on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to their... -
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia by George Ewart Evans 9781908213099
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.68In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the... -
Copsford by Walter J. C. Murray
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04Walter Murray was a young man tired of living in the city. Early in the 1920s, he persuaded a Sussex farmer to rent him a derelict cottage, which stood alone on a hill, with no running water or... -
The Shining Levels by John Wyatt
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $14.04John Wyatt first encountered the Lake District during a boyhood camping trip to Windermere. He was overwhelmed by the freedom of the landscape and the closeness to nature he felt. It was as if he... -
Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times by Jay Griffiths 9781915068019
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.43This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then noon...