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Labelled 'degenerate' by the Nazis, Schwitters - an early proponent of 'found' art - fled to Britain, where he was interned until 1941. In this highly personal account of him, Potter follows... read more

Looking for Mr Schwitters

Jennifer Potter

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The work of The Campaign to Protect Rural England: from the Country Code to sustainable development.

Protecting The Countryside: The First Century of CPRE

Matthew Kelly

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LPJ was a philosopher and non-conformist minister who lived in the Vale of Evesham in the late C19th. This is what might now be called an autofictional account of rural life, full of the str... read more

Mad Shepherds

L P Jacks

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Contributors include Mary-Ann Ochota, Tim Dee, Isabelle Tree, Guy Shrubsole, Richard Mabey, Fiona Reynolds, Zaffar Kunial, Sean Borodale, Corinne Fowler and Helen Mort. To celebrate the cent... read more

Future Rural: Imagining Tomorrow’s Countryside

Adrian Cooper

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The osprey conservation efforts at Aigus Field Centre, near Inverness, by the distinguished naturalist.

Osprey

John Lister-Kaye

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An anthology of essays in Arabic and English by writers across the Middle East and further afield, about place, loss, borders, food and much else.

Long Grass in the Wind: Tales from Language Land

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

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The poet's 1913 walk from Buckinghamshire to Suffolk.

The Icknield Way

Edward Thomas

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Exhausted by a corporate job, Hahn changed tack, moving to an ancient farm in the Loire Valley. Twenty years later he lives there still, growing and making small-batch organic wines. This is... read more

Angels in the Cellar

Peter Hahn

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Eloquently addresses the brave lifeboat crews and volunteers who help the refugees in the small boats crisis. This short book began ‘with a feeling of deep disquiet’ following a perio... read more

We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain

Horatio Clare

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A beautiful little hardback from Little Toller. On the animals - real and imagined - of the city of floating dreams.

A Venetian Bestiary

Jan Morris

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The C19th Irish gardener and taste-bud who introduced naturalistic planting and loose herbaceous borders at his Elizabethan manor house, Gravetye. He was also worked with Jekyll. First publi... read more

The Wild Garden

William Robinson

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay

Jeff Young

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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A tale of youthful escape from 1970s' Liverpool to Paris, a wild descent into scrapes of every kind: lyrical and flinty writing. JY has shades of Orwell but with a less good start in life.

Wild Twin: Dream Maps of a Lost Soul and Drifter

Jeff Young

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Thirty pieces on landscape - wild to urban - by Nancy Campbell, Tim Dee, Kathleen Jamie et al.

Going to Ground: An anthology of nature and place

Jon Woolcott

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The pioneering struggle of early C20th women gardeners, who were excluded from the profession on account of their sex by such august bodies as the RHS. Fiona Davidson's previous book was The... read more

An Almost Impossible Thing

Fiona Davison

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A year on the farm in North Devon that Morpurgo knew well and where he set War Horse, with a dozen poems by Ted Hughes who was a neighbour. First published in 1979, this is another valuable ... read more

All Around the Year

Michael Morpurgo

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These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more

The Allotment

Colin Ward

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The extraordinary woman who wandered the world gathering herbal lore settled in a cabin in the New Forest for three years in the 1950s, where she raised her children.

Wanderers in the New Forest

Juliette de Bairacli Levy

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The Long Field: A Memoir

Pamela Petro

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Ring Of Bright Water

Gavin Maxwell

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Island Years, Island Farm

Frank Fraser Darling

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A lovely hardback reissue of Mabey's book about beech trees, prompted by the great storm of 1987 when so many blew down. It's a wonderful stroll through the history of Fagus sylvatica, inclu... read more

Beechcombings

Richard Mabey

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A boy finds an unknown variety of apple while wandering deep in the woods near his home. Lovely watercolours throughout. For children who love pottering about outside and are good at noticin... read more

Archie’s Apple

Hannah Shuckburgh

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An almanac-turned-essay collection of seasons, cities and people across the world - and closer to home - by the author of Wild. From Little Toller, a small publishing house that consistently... read more

Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times

Jay Griffiths

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Though the pioneering dendrologist died in 2015, the chapters for this book were amongst his papers.

The Ancient Woods of South-East Wales

Oliver Rackham

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The Screaming Sky: in pursuit of swifts

Charles Foster

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Savage Gods

Paul Kingsnorth

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A strange and magical memoir of growing up in prosaic England with Anglo-Burmese parentage. Teak trees interweave oaks; myth and imagery chase each other through the author's odyssey through... read more

Shalimar

Davina Quinlivan

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PP is an American academic and artist who has immersed herself in Wales, in particular the idea of hiraeth... a word for homesickness, or a deep longing for something left behind. Grappling ... read more

The Long Field: A Memoir

Pamela Petro

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Erudite reflections on the history of the auroch, the Minotaur, the great auk and his own near death during the pandemic.

Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction

John Burnside

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A hardback reprint of his award-winning biography of Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist who lived at Selborne. One of a trio of books being published this autumn by Little Toller in ce... read more

Gilbert White

Richard Mabey

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A hardback reissue of Mabey's ground-breaking work of 1973, in which he wrote about what have more recently become known as 'edgelands', the neglected nooks and corners of industrial or urba... read more

The Unofficial Countryside

Richard Mabey

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A handsome reissue of this celebrated memoir to honour the author's 80th birthday, from one of our favourite small publishers.

Nature Cure

Richard Mabey

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A welcome reissue of this 1948 classic in the gorgeous Little Toller Nature Classics series. A careful survey of buildings associated with traditional farms, it is also fascinating social hi... read more

An English Farmhouse

Geoffrey Grigson

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The winner of this year's Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing is a meticulous, spirited diary observing the changing seasons from the perspective of an autistic teenager.

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

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