The countryside, country life

  • By Rowan and Yew

    By Rowan and Yew

    £7.99

    As autumn begins, Moss and the Hidden Folk friends travel to their former home in Ash Row, to find the rare mortal child who can both see and talk to them. Can they prove the Wild World still needs guardians?

  • Park Life

    £16.99

    If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s that people love parks 

    Wherever we are in the world, urban parks are places where we can find calm amid the chaos.

    With fondness and humour, travel writer Tom Chesshyre recalls 50 of his favourite urban parks from across the world, in a love letter to the green escapes that bring us joy in our cities.

  • Lost Skills and Crafts Handbook

    £16.99

    In this inspirational and practical guide to country life, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of rural Britain, its landscapes and wildlife, its traditions, customs and crafts.

  • A Field Guide to Larking

    £14.99

    A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to ‘larking’ from the bestselling author of Mudlarking. LARK (verb): to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this beautiful field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. There are maps and charts, tips and lists, and colour illustrations throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative and yet small enough to pop in a pocket. Like a journal it invites you to interact – to make notes and record finds along the way. If Lara Maiklem’s first book was a glimpse into a hidden world, with this field guide she shows us how we can discover it for ourselves.

  • The Book of Trespass

    The Book of Trespass

    £9.99

    The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92% of the land and 97% of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. ‘The Book of Trespass’ takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land.

  • Woodston

    Woodston

    £20.00

    From the volcanoes that stained it, to the Romans who occupied it, to Tudors who traded it, to the bombs that fell on it, John Lewis-Stempel charts an affectionate history of Woodston Farm – the quintessential English farm. Combining the skill of the farmer and the historian with an instinctive love of the land, Lewis-Stempel mines the memories of his relatives and written records to provide a deep and thoughtful interrogation of the land that his family have been bound to for millennia.

  • Walking the Invisible

    £16.99

    See through the eyes of the Brontës as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.

    An ‘imaginative and elegant trek through the landscape of the Brontës’ Grazia

  • Orchard

    £9.99

    By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of Rebirding

    Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life.

  • By Ash, Oak and Thorn

    £7.99

    Three tiny, ancient beings – Moss, Burnet and Cumulus, once revered as Guardians of the Wild World – wake from winter hibernation. But when their home is destroyed, they set off on an adventure. Can they find a way to survive in a precious, disappearing world?

  • Save Our Species

    £10.99

    Whether you would like to learn how to build a bird box, dig a hedgehog tunnel or implement broader environmental changes in your community, this practical guide to saving our most endangered species will teach you how you can help on an individual, local and national level.

  • Yorkshire Dales Park Rangers Favourite Walks

    £6.99

    Walking guide to the Yorkshire Dales National Park, with 20 best routes chosen by the park rangers. Each walk varies in length from 2 to 10 km and can be completed in less than 4 hours.

  • South Downs Park Rangers Favourite Walks

    £6.99

    Walking guide to the South Downs National Park, with 20 best routes chosen by the park rangers. Each walk varies in length from 2 to 10 km and can be completed in less than 4 hours.