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Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.85What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village... -
The Bookman's Tale by Ronald Blythe 9781853119804
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.71Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield", have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice... -
Village Hours by Ronald Blythe 9781848252370
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.88Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and, increasingly, commuters. For... -
River Diary by Ronald Blythe 9781853118623
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.84The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of nature's gifts and... -
Under a Broad Sky by Ronald Blythe 9781848254749
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.88With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many... -
A Year at Bottengoms Farm by Ronald Blythe 9781853118333
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Features a collection of sixty "Word From Wormingford" columns from the back page of the "Church Times", published in the autumn of 2006. This work presents mini essays that reflect the natural... -
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe 9781590178300
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178300Author Ronald BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Borderland: Continuity and Change in the Countryside by Ronald Blythe 9781853118517
Booksplease Price: £13.53An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from... -
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe 9781399804691
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour . . . Bliss' STEPHEN FRY'A capacious work that... -
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958 by Dr. Ronald Blythe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin... -
The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age by Ronald Blythe 9781848257023
Booksplease Price: £21.88'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen,... -
Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year by Ronald Blythe 9781848257108
Booksplease Price: £16.56An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from... -
Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford by Ronald Blythe 9781853118548
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.93An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from... -
The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age by Ronald Blythe 9781853115929
Booksplease Price: £14.99'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen,... -
Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year by Ronald Blythe 9781853118456
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times", where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from... -
Talking to the Neighbours: Conversations in a Country Parish by Ronald Blythe 9781853115530
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.50These reflections weave together literature, poetry, biography, botany, nature and scripture to offer incisive comment on contemporary life. Resonating with the pattern of the natural and litugical... -
The Circling Year: Perspectives from a Country Parish by Ronald Blythe 9781853114311
Booksplease Price: £11.89Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry,... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe Ian Collins 9781399819060
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.63'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer'... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe by Ian Collins 9781399819091
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399819091Author Ian CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint John Murray Publishers... -
The Circling Year: Perspectives from a Country Parish by Ronald Blythe 9781848257184
Booksplease Price: £17.60Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry,... -
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain 9780349020419
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.0250th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN... -
New Aldeburgh Anthology Ariane Bankes 9781843835882
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.40A book for those drawn back to Aldeburgh year after year for the music, writing and arts - and to all who care for the landscape, the sea and the ongoing life of the Suffolk Coast. The New... -
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph 9781800818125
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.34Jenny Joseph was no ordinary poet - and Led by the Nose is no ordinary memoir. Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, it is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that... -
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris 9780571350520
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.80'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY'Humane,... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast Gavin Knight 9781784700997
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the... -
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 by Will Ashon 9780571364152
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising... -
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The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast by Gavin Knight 9781784700997 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.00The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the... -
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and... -
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Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life by Richard Morris 9781474623421 [USED COPY]
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £2.80'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis became a household name after the hit 1955 film The... -
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel,... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed... -
Gravity for Beginners by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Kevin Crossley-Holland's name will be familiar to readers of all ages for his historical novels, his re-telling of the Norse myths and his many volumes of poetry. Previously published by the late... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig... -
Sounding Heaven and Earth: A Poet’s Corner Collection by Malcolm Guite 9781786225399
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute... -
In Every Corner Sing: A Poet's Corner collection by Malcolm Guite 9781786220974
Booksplease Price: £16.55Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the... -
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 by Keith Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.70'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not... -
The English Path by Kim Taplin 9781915068422
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £10.48Until surprisingly late in the twentieth century almost all rural traffic, especially for shorter journeys, was on foot, made on footpaths and bridleways, often muddy in winter and hard in summer... -
Ink and Spirit: Literature and Spirituality by Stephen Platten 9781853113635
Booksplease Price: £12.03As suspicious as one often is of the other, literature and spirituality enjoy a rich and deep relationship. They have been inextricably linked since narrative and symbol first met in the earliest... -
The Living Stream - Holy Wells in Historical Context by James Rattue
Booksplease Price: £25.91A history of holy wells from the pagan cult of water to the Christian wells of the middle ages, and including a full gazetteer. The holy well is the absolute combination of mystery and utility...