SUMMER READS

Whether you're packing your bags or sitting in the shade of an ancient oak, we've chosen six of our favourite books for summer, old and new, for a 10% reader offer. Enter SUMMER10 at checkout.

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

King of Dust is a craftman’s personal journey through the landscapes and the ancient sculpture that first inspired him to pick up tools. Weaving together the archaeology of the stones and their medieval carvers with his own life, and those of the writers and artists similarly drawn to them, the book is meditation on craft, the importance of the handmade, and the transformative power of art in our lives.

by Alex Woodcock

KING OF DUST

ADVENTURES IN FORGOTTED SCULPTURE

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.

'Copsford has an innocence, a freedom in thought and life.'
Raynor Winn

COPSFORD

by Walter J. C. Murray

Copsford is an extraordinary book. Bearing comparison to Thoreau’s Walden, Murray’s intense feeling for his place is evident on every page.

“Despite the years between us we will see and feel much of the same world that Bach did; under the same horizons we will encounter the same paths, trees, plants, birds and animals. We will be crossing one of the most fascinating and perhaps the most significant of modern European states.”

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