"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
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 ... read more
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.
MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... 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 provocative denunciation of enclosure and boundaries by a writer who is also an illustrator and print-maker. Timely too, when Parliament is in the throes of cinching the laws of trespass s... read more