A Yorkshire childhood, remembered in lockdown, collides with immense global forces. Hunters in the Snow, Hildyard's previous novel - her first - was excellent.
This excellent author has set his new novel in Roman Britain: a tribal princess given away as part of a peace treaty flees through Wales with her Roman lover.
Born in 1833, Watt was a servant from the age of nine; later, she sold her husband's catch from door to door. After the death of most of her male relatives at sea, she was cared for in the C... read more
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
A memoir of inner and outer pilgrimage that begins with PS quitting her travel-writing job, leaving her partner and cutting short her Camino de Santiago to return home to North Wales, and th... read more
First of a beautifully published pair of LL's famous memoirs: in this we have his lyrical evocation of a childhood in rural England during the years after WW1. Lovely clothbound edition from... read more
The second volume of a beautifully published pair of LL's famous memoirs, in which the young man leaves his beloved village of Slad for London and then walks and busks his way around Spain.... read more
Landscape preservation through the lives of Octavia Hill (London), Beatrix Potter (Lake District), Pauline Dower (Northumberland), and Sylvia Sayer (Dartmoor).
We feel that this might be one for our (now ex-)Minister for Brexit Opportunities. Down with wine, garlic, citrus, olive oil and capers and up with turnips and mead!
The poet walks ten landscapes that were significant for the Romantics - Shelley, Barrett Browning, Constable, Wordsworth and others - from Kent to Scotland: a mix of memoir, reverie, and ref... read more
By examining their individual backgrounds, Clark shows that Ramsay MacDonald's new cabinet represented a radical departure in its representation of Britain's social classes.
Orme is back with another piece of medieval social history. Here he traces the development of 62 English cathedrals and describes the life and activities that occurred within their walls.
The highways and byways of the Good Friday Agreement - by a distinguished journalist who spent several decades covering the troubled state of Northern Ireland.
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
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
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 fun... read more
Prominent in both Thatcher and Major's cabinets, the author is a shrewd observer of the corridors of power, with their surprising chicanes and U-turns.
Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more
A native of West Cornwall, TH has zig-zagged his way across the duchy - over moor, through woodland, along the coast, by tin mines - to create an lively and congenial mix of nature writing a... read more
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
This rich historical analysis argues that the Enlightenment was a failure on its own terms. Terror, revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and Empire prevailed instead of Reason.
The story of one of the most tumultuous moments in British history, which analyses how James I's rule was haunted by Elizabethan political norms and values.