After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expected to find contentment. It was the goal he had sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he found that his tools as a writer were failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself.

by Paul Kingsnorth

SAVAGE GODS

The Helford River, Cornwall, is one of the very few places in England where ancient woodland meets the sea. It was one of Oliver Rackham’s favourite places to carry out fieldwork, and after his untimely death in February 2015 we discovered that there were a number of manuscripts in various drafts. The Woods of the Helford River was the most complete.

THE ANCIENT WOODS OF

by Oliver Rackham

THE HELFORD RIVER

This beautiful book, written with Peter Marren’s usual wit and insight, takes you on a journey back to a time before the arts and science were divided. When entomologists were also poets and painters, and when a gift for vivid language went hand-in-hand with a deep pre-Darwinian fascination for the emerging natural world.

A very special limited edition of our Rena Gardiner artist and printmaker book. We have had thirty copies bound by hand by the Ludlow Bookbinders. Each in a linen case, stamped and hand numbered with the Little Toller edition signet.

RENA GARDINER

Artist and Printmaker

Limited Handbound Edition