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
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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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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
Cider with Rosie
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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.
The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997
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Glorious survey of pieces in the Victoria & Albert Museum, from Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew and Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal, Grayson Perry and many others. Many illustrations.
Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now
Hardback £65.00