Millstone Grit is Glyn Hughes' masterful work exploring the landscapes and culture of the West Riding and East Lancashire, following the course of a 50 mile walk.
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 Osprey Lister-Kaye records the nature around his Highland home as he waits for ospreys to return to nest. In his eightieth year Lister-Kaye brings a lifetime of nature and stories to Osprey, a captivating, entertaining account of the slow healing of landscapes and a life lived in the hope that the wild will return.
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.
The Charm of Birds is Edward Grey's remarkably fresh perspective on the bird life he found around his Northumberland home and his Hampshire cottage, a book which still has the capacity to remind us of nature's wonder.
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.