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by Jacquetta Hawkes A Land ‘From the white-hot beginnings of the Earth to the shaping of Britain, Hawkes sees land and life as inseparable. Rock, soil, memory, art and history become parts of a story: a vision of deep time in which people are formed by the ground beneath them, even as they transform it.’ PRE - ORDER Cal Flyn David Nash by George Sturt The Wheelwright's Shop ‘A great celebration. A wonderful statement about a reality, and an expression of how knowledge can be gathered and gleaned from the raw materials that grow in the woods, hedges and fields.’ BUY NOW by Mike Perry & David Nash REVERSE SOD SWAP ‘There is something profoundly moving about the idea of Reverse Sod Swap, both literally and metaphorically.’ Cornelia Parker, visual artist BUY NOW by JOHN LISTER-KAYE BUY NOW OSPREY John Lister-Kaye brings a lifetime of experience and stories to Osprey, giving us an entertaining, honest and beautiful observation of landscapes slowly healing, and of a life lived in hope that the wild may return. BUY NOW LOOKING FOR MR SCHWITTERS Jennifer Potter's Looking for Mr Schwitters shines a light on a pivotal artist's final years in the Lake District. Drawing on memory and personal connections, Potter turned Schwitters into one of the foundational myths of her life as a writer. Not a biography, nor an art book, nor a memoir — but rigorously researched and written for the general reader, it reclaims Schwitters' rightful place in the history of modern art. by Jennifer Potter FUTURE RURAL Future Rural is a new anthology of writing which gathers together a chorus of voices — writers, farmers, activists, ecologists and thinkers – and asks them to interrogate the past and present in order to imagine what lies ahead for Britain’s rural landscapes and communities. Celebrating 100 years of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Imagining Tomorrow's Countryside BUY NOW by Horatio Clare BUY NOW We Came By Sea ‘It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare's skill turn attention to this topic, and he does not avoid referencing corruption and other wrongdoing by those in power’ Stories of a greater Britian Sally Hayden, Irish Times PAPERBACK EDITION Boyd Tonkin, The Independent by Ken Worpole Buy Now Brightening from the East ‘One of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape.’ ‘One work of nonfiction I have most enjoyed this year.’ D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement (Books of the Year) Essays on landscape and memory Alice Vincent by Kim Taplin BUY NOW The English Path ‘The Wild Garden is a hopeful and practical book for today as much as it is a fascinating insight into how our gardens - and attitudes to them - have changed.’
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Our history hides underneath, requiring forensic and patient excavation sometimes with tweezers and small brushes.

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