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Hetty Saunders was first introduced to J. A. Baker and the Baker Archive as a literature postgraduate at the University of Cambridge. She was instantly captivated by the astounding prose of Baker’s first…

A. G. Street (1892 - 1966) was a farmer and broadcaster who grew up in Wiltshire, farmed first in Canada before returning to southern England, and wrote many books, of which Farmer's Glory was…

JOHN SEYMOUR was an ecological pioneer who championed the cause of living simply. A prolific author and activist in the self-sufficiency movement, Seymour travelled widely in his youth in Africa, India and around…

FIONA SAMPSON has published twenty-seven books and received the Newdigate Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, Writer’s Awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales and the Society of Authors, various Poetry Book…

NEIL SENTANCE Neil Sentance was born in Lincolnshire in 1969. He now lives in west Dorset with his wife and two children. A regular contributor to Caught by the River, Water and Sky…

OLIVER RACKHAM OBE FBA was the outstanding botanical and landscape writer of his generation. His books include The History of the Countryside, Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape, Ancient Woodland and…

RICHARD SKELTON is a musician and an artist from Lancashire, northern England. Over the past decade he has produced a diverse and acclaimed body of work, including films, exhibitions, pamphlets, books, and…

KAY SYRAD's novels include Send (forthcoming October 2015) and The Milliner and the Phrenologist. She has also published the poetry collections, Double Edge and Objects of Colour, and two Thames & Hudson…

Llewelyn Powys was born in Dorchester, Dorset, the eighth child in a family that included the novelists John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys. He grew up in Somerset, and was educated at…

IAIN SINCLAIR is a poet, film-maker, essayist and the author of many acclaimed books, including Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, Edge of…

IAN NIALL (1916 - 2002) was the pen-name of John McNeillie, born in Old Kilpatrick on the banks of the Firth of Clyde. He published his first book, Wigtown Ploughman: Part of…