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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The View from the Hill by Christopher Somerville
    The View from the Hill - by Christopher Somerville

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914982033 | ISBN 10: 1914982037

    ‘An absolute delight.’ Dorset Magazine  ‘Somerville is a superb writer – controversial and wry, but also evocative and informative.’ Perceptive Travel  ‘This is a book you can dip into at any page and be transported to a ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Eye for Birds by Bruce Kendrick
    An Eye for Birds - by Bruce Kendrick

    £18.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781849954952 | ISBN 10: 184995495x

    As a ten-year-old, the author contracted TB and was sent to an isolated sanatorium, deep in the Cheshire countryside. There he was bedridden for six months. On fine days, nurses would push the young patients, in their beds, out onto a large veranda a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
    Vesper Flights - by Helen Macdonald

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780099575467 | ISBN 10: 0099575469

    *A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*  Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.   From the bestselling author o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Farewell Mr Puffin: A Small Boat Voyage to Iceland by Paul Heiney
    Farewell Mr Puffin: A Small Boat Voyage to Iceland - by Paul Heiney

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472990976 | ISBN 10: 1472990978

    The writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to breathe the cool, clear air of the high latitudes, and to follow in the wake of generations of sailors who have made this often ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
    Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more

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  • Cover image of book 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox
    21st-Century Yokel - by Tom Cox

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527397 | ISBN 10: 1783527390

    A nature book, but not quite like any you’ll have read before.  21st-Century Yokel is the book that, as someone entrenched in a love of the countryside, I’ve been waiting a decade to write - maybe longer. It’s not quite a nature book, not q ... more

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  • Cover image of book Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman by Derek Jarman
    Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman - by Derek Jarman

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784873875 | ISBN 10: 178487387x

    A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness.   WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAING   In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain by Christopher Somerville
    The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain - by Christopher Somerville

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784161248 | ISBN 10: 1784161241

    The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder’s ‘The January Man’. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continua ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Apples of Gower by Iain Sinclair
    Black Apples of Gower - by Iain Sinclair

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908213457 | ISBN 10: 1908213450

    Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula.  Provoked by the strange and enigmatic series of paintings A ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food by John Lewis-Stempel
    The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food - by John Lewis-Stempel

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784162382 | ISBN 10: 1784162388

    The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done?   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
    The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream - by Katharine Norbury

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408859261 | ISBN 10: 1408859262

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD  Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shepherd
    The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District - by James Rebanks

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141979366 | ISBN 10: 0141979364

    From James Rebanks, the Herdwick Shepherd, comes The Shepherd's Life, a story of the Lake District and its people which could redefine the literature of rural life.   Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes from Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
    Notes from Walnut Tree Farm - by Roger Deakin

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141039022 | ISBN 10: 0141039027

    When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last si ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
    Nature Cure - by Richard Mabey

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099531821 | ISBN 10: 0099531828

    In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. The natural world - which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him - became meaningless.  Then, cared ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Month and a Day and Letters by Ken Saro-Wiwa
    A Month and a Day and Letters - by Ken Saro-Wiwa

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780954702359 | ISBN 10: 0954702352

    "Many people still remember how they felt when Ken Saro-Wiwa was judicially murdered. Some of us have spent the period trying to forget, as a strategy to mask our pain..."(Ken Wiwa, from a speech at the Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Commemoration, London ... more

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  • Cover image of book Close to the Veg: A Book of Allotment Tales by Michael Rand
    Close to the Veg: A Book of Allotment Tales - by Michael Rand

    £10.99   hardback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780954798819 | ISBN 10: 0954798813

    Winter 1992. After a series of failed relationships, family bereavements and career setbacks, Michael Rand has hit rock bottom. One morning, a letter arrives from the council, asking if he would like a plot on the Fitzroy Park allotments, next to Ham ... more

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  • Cover image of book Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh
    Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power - by Alastair McIntosh

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781854109422 | ISBN 10: 1854109421

    In this rousing book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possibe for ordinary people to take on powerful individuals or mighty corporations and emerge victorious. As a founder of the residents of the Isle of Eigg T ... more

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