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The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.65W.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... -
The Shining Levels by John Wyatt
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48John 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... -
Black Apples of Gower Iain Sinclair 9781908213457
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Iain 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: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86In 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... -
Through the Woods by H. E. Bates 9781908213020
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48H E Bates carried a woodland in his imagination. He fell under its spell as a boy growing up in the Midlands, becoming increasingly enchanted each time he stepped below the wooded canopy. Memory... -
Ridge and Furrow: Voices from the Winter Fields by Neil Sentance
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11In his haunting debut, Water and Sky, published in 2014, Neil Sentance explored the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. Ridge and Furrow continues the project to chart in prose... -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.85Edward 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... -
A Shepherd's Life by W. H. Hudson 9780956254573
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Through 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... -
Snow by Marcus Sedgwick 9781908213402
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Of 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... -
Herbaceous by Paul Evans 9781908213594
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.38As 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... -
Set My Hand Upon The Plough by E. M. Barraud 9781915068323
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48In 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... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Aurochs 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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A 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... -
Deer Island by Neil Ansell 9781908213136
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88At 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 Ash Tree by Oliver Rackham 9781908213143
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94Ash is one of the most common trees in the British Isles - there are nearly as many ash trees as there are people. Perhaps this is why we take them for granted. Poets write of oak, yew, elm,... -
Copsford by Walter J. C. Murray
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Walter 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 Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9781908213259
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.48A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Daily rainfall levels and... -
The Military Orchid Jocelyn Brooke 9781908213051
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Jocelyn 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,... -
Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times by Jay Griffiths 9781915068019
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.75This 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... -
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young 9781908213921
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Liverpool is a city of ghosts. Through the centuries, millions have lived here or come to find a new life, and found safe harbour. More than any other city in Britain its history resonates in the... -
Four Hedges by Clare Leighton 9780956254535
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Clare 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,... -
The Lost Orchards: Rediscovering the forgotten apple varieties of Dorset by Liz Copas
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.37About 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: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.48Originally 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Since 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... -
In the Country by Kenneth Allsop 9781908213044
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48At 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... -
Archie's Apple by Hannah Shuckburgh 9781915068064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.77Have 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... -
Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook by Robin Walter 9781908213730
Booksplease Price: £26.31Trees and woods offer great potential for rebuilding our wider relationship with nature, reinforcing local identity and sustaining wildlife. We need more trees and woods in our lives, to lock up... -
Limestone Country 9781915068415
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Limestone 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... -
Made in England by Dorothy Hartley 9781908213600
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79First 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... -
The Screaming Sky: in pursuit of swifts by 9781915068002
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Shortlisted 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... -
An English Farmhouse Geoffrey Grigson 9781908213754
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Originally 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... -
The Unofficial Countryside Richard Mabey 9780956254559
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48During 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... -
Cornerstones: Subterranean writings; from Dartmoor to the Arctic Circle by Mark Smalley 9781908213631
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.48Although 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... -
The Allotment by Colin Ward 9781915068231
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.48Allotments are sanctuaries for growing, often on the fringes of suburbia, where life is getting ever more stressful and expensive. Here, a simple urge to grow-your-own or become self-sufficient,... -
Orison for a Curlew: In Search of a Bird on the Edge of Extinction by Horatio Clare 9781908213570
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74The 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... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 9781908213952
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.86To 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... -
Exchange by Kay Syrad 9781908213341
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.88Food 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... -
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime England Ken Worpole 9781908213860
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.98On '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... -
brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe 9781915068057
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Reuben, 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... -
Ring of Bright Water by 9780956254504
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79In 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...