“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 his family farm back to the year dot.
Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm
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£20.00
Edition:Hardback978085752579601/07/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author's grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
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A book that is about history, especially that of Connell's native Ireland, quite as much as it is about running long distances.
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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
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To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne
Hardback £20.00