Stories in all landscapes begin below the surface of the earth. Bedrock speaks first through the variety of soils, plants and animals that live above ground, then shapes the way people farm land, worship their gods and build villages, towns and cities. To understand the distinct quality of any place, first we must peel back the skin of the earth.

CORNERSTONES

Edited by Mark Smalley

Herbaceous is gardening with words. It is a book of audacious botany and poetic vision which asks us to look anew at our relationship with plants and celebrates their power to nourish the human spirit.

Herbaceous

by Paul Evans

'One of the great farming books...'
James Rebanks

Farmer's Glory

by A G Street

First published in the early 1930s, Farmer's Glory is a warm and humorous classic about farming life. Written in simple, direct prose, Farmer's Glory is a model of the genre.

MY HOUSE OF SKY

My House of Sky is the first biography of the acclaimed naturalist J.A. Baker author of The Peregrine.

by Hetty Saunders

Foreword by
Robert Macfarlane

The paperback edition of Carol Donaldson’s extraordinary debut: a deeply felt exploration into the waterlands of the north Kent marshes through a long walk featuring encounters with the people and wildlife who choose to live in this liminal landscape.

ON THE MARSHES

by Carol Donladson

‘As I sat there above the sea, with gulls and choughs riding the updraughts, it was difficult to know which way was up or down. Space itself searched for definition in the vast stretch of ocean in front of me.’

Eagle Country

by Seán Lysaght

Celebrating our 10th nature monograph

‘It is pleasant to watch the quiet skilful worker. He sits low on a stool, the structural withys 5 feet long waving out in front of him as the hive turns round and round to his weaving. He has that look that comes to all men who work their wits against wild things, of thinking with their fingers.’

Made In England

by Dorothy Hartley