Witty and wandering memoir about the pursuit of happiness – indeed paradise – through all things “fishological”, which include travelling about and stillness, people and solitude, childhood and a long look back through adulthood. (Presumably Pope Gregory I meant ‘anglers’ all along.)
The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and The Pursuit of Paradise
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978147118655427/05/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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The Wild Life of the Fox
Hardback £9.99 -
An account of farming in Britain today - from sheep farming to polytunnels. Bella Bathurst's previous subjects have included the Lighthouse Stevensons, so she gets our vote.
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"We think about history coming down to us; but creation, generally, builds upwards, layer on layer...". JLS is a farmer as well as one of our foremost writers of nature, and here he takes hi... read more
Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm
Hardback £20.00 -
A book that is about history, especially that of Connell's native Ireland, quite as much as it is about running long distances.