A selection of the Venerable Blythe’s columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and funny too – Samuel Johnson “like a January fool” for making resolutions, etc. Travels as lightly between present, past and future as a barn owl zooms across a field. What a beguiling, dear man he must have been!
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside
£25.00
Edition:Hardback978139980466027/10/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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A Yorkshire childhood, remembered in lockdown, collides with immense global forces. Hunters in the Snow, Hildyard's previous novel - her first - was excellent.
Emergency
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The dewy, rolling hills, as witnessed by Hardy, Shepherd, Macfarlane, Macdonald, and a gaggle of brilliant, lesser-known writers. (This volume is testament to the genre's true diversity, whi... read more
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We haven't quite understood yet how to use this magnificent book as an atlas, but the pictures are breath-taking: ancient wonders hiding in plain sight. Abram's takes full advantage of aeria... read more
Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain
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Books on Cornwall clearly come like buses: this one takes us affectionately from Minehead to Land's End along the coastal path, over a decade. By the author of Diary of an MP's Wife, also a ... read more
Edgeland: A Slow Walk West
Hardback £22.00