Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations: was it part of a ritual landscape, an island, a way of remembering the dead, a place of celebration? In this acclaimed memoir Adam Thorpe returns to the landscape of his youth to explore its many meanings for him, and for us.

In this recently rediscovered memoir of life in The Women's Land Army, E. M. Barraud writes with remarkable candour and honesty about her life working the land in The Second World War, and Set My Hand Upon The Plough is set to join the ranks of LGBT memoirs, revealing a different side to the Home Front.

The Allotment is the classic study of allotments, it looks at British society and history through the culture of allotments. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing this book remains as relevant as ever and is essential for everyone interested in social history, land ownership and gardening in twenty-first century Britain.

This is an anthology of essays and poetry from more than forty of our best-loved nature writers on bogs, peat and peatlands, stories of nature, science, history and myth.

In The English Path Kim Taplin explores how writers and poets have written about footpaths and bridleways, from Jane Austen to Iain Sinclair, celebrating these vital routes, which sustained rural life for centuries.

The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth'.

The Wild Garden is a revolutionary book which swept aside Victorian gardening conventions and formality and replaced it with a new style of gardening: naturalistic, cottage gardening. Decades ahead of its time, it remains hugely relevant today.

Unschooled is a fierce memoir of a family, and a woman navigating the endless travails of motherhood. But Caro Giles' daughters are educated at home, not through 'lifestyle choice', but because the chronically underfunded school system simply does not work for many children with special educational needs, and Caro has no alternative.