Little Toller Books | Independent publisher of new and classic nature writing

The four books in the Richard Mabey Library: Beechcombings, The Unofficial Countryside, Nature Cure and Gilbert White, presented in a wibalin slipcase, in a special, highly collectable, limited edition. Published to celebrate the many achievements of the great naturalist and writer.

The Richard Mabey Library

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‘A book of plangent beauty and longing.’
Anthony Quinn, The Observer’

‘A stunningly beautiful book about the ways time, memory and life shape and change cities, families and all of us.’
Costa 2020 Biography Award judges

Ghost Town by Jeff Young

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‘An exquisite unfolding of the truths of language and the human heart.’ Jay Griffiths

‘Both playful and serious, this memoir looks deep into the long field that separates and unites us, placing it squarely in a geography of love.’ Gwyneth Lewis

The Long Field by Pamela Petro

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Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize

‘Swifts know the roar of lions better than the roar of the M25, the piping of hornbills better than the Nunc dimittis of parish Evensong, giraffe better than cats, the centre of a cloud better than a fibreglass-lined hole in a suburban street.’

The Screaming Sky by Charles Foster

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‘A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir . . . how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living’

Nature Cure by Richard Mabey

Philip Marsden,
Sunday Times

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BY ROBIN WALTER

LIVING WITH TREES

People around the UK are redefining their relationship with trees and woods in the twenty-first century – in healthcare, education, ecology, art, architecture, conservation, rewilding – the book demonstrates how caring for trees and woods enhances local biodiversity, community cohesion and well-being.

Grow, protect and celebrate the trees and woods in your community