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A Month in the Country
Hailed as 'one of the best books' by Richard Osman and lauded for its 'tender and elegant' prose by the Guardian, J L Carr's 'A Month in the Country' stands as a singular masterpiece in modern English literature. This poignant tale follows Tom Birkin,...- £9.99 GBP
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Wintering : The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Delve into Katherine May's 'Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times', a Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. This masterful exploration of life's fallow periods offers a profound insight into the art of self-care and rejuvenation...- £12.99 GBP
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The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot
A Sunday Times bestseller and Samuel Johnson Prize nominee, 'The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot' is a masterful exploration of Britain's ancient pathways by the acclaimed author of 'Underland', 'Landmarks', and 'The Lost Words'. Robert Macfarlane, renowned for his eloquent observations of nature,...- £12.99 GBP
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Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By Peter Ross (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 432 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Headline Book PublishingISBN: 9781472281951Published: 1 Feb 2024Weight: 384g Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned.They contain...- £10.99 GBP
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The Offing : A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
Prepare for a cinematic treat as Helena Bonham-Carter takes the lead in the forthcoming adaptation of this remarkable novella. Penned by the Walter Scott Prize laureate behind 'The Gallows Pole', this powerful work has earned its place as a Times Book of the Year....- £9.99 GBP
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The Last Quarter of the Moon : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
At the ripe age of ninety, I've become intimately acquainted with the elements, having both endured and embraced them throughout my long life. As the twentieth century draws to a close, I find myself seated amidst a grove of birch trees, contemplating the triumphs...- £9.99 GBP
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior,...- £12.99 GBP
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Winters in the World : A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories...- £10.99 GBP
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A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards : Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy...- £10.99 GBP
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Lust For Life
Irving Stone's "Lust for Life" offers a captivating fictional account of the extraordinary existence of Vincent Van Gogh. This masterpiece paints a vivid portrait of the artist's undying legacy, asserting that Van Gogh's passion, brilliance, and artistic contributions shall forever enrich our world. As...- £11.99 GBP
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Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'Lolly Willowes' is a triumphant celebration of individuality and a defiant roar against societal norms. This captivating tale follows the unassuming Lolly, whose placid exterior belies a startling depth of character. When she boldly declares her intention to abandon London for...- £9.99 GBP
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The Salt Path
Bring nature into your home with the inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decadeFROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'This is what you need right now to muster hope...- £10.99 GBP
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Wilding : The Return of Nature to a British Farm
`A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope' - Chris PackhamWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society / White Horse Book Shop Award for Nature...- £10.99 GBP
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A Treasury of British Folklore : Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe
An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an unlucky colour for...- £12.99 GBP
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A Natural History of the Hedgerow : and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for...- £12.99 GBP
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A Home for All Seasons
Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'HORATIO CLARE'Truly a revelation on every page.'PETROC TRELAWNY'A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.' COUNTRY LIFE'A wide-ranging meditation on place and...- £10.99 GBP
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Femina : A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been...- £12.99 GBP
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Under the Ivy : The Life and Music of Kate Bush
Embark on an enthralling journey through the life and artistry of Kate Bush with this meticulously revised and updated biography, now featuring a new foreword by Sinead Gleeson. From her formative years to her emergence as a prodigious talent, and her subsequent metamorphosis into...- £12.99 GBP
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On This Holy Island : A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain -- A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024
*** A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 ***"Excellent.immensely well-researched and playful. Smith has written something special." -- Patrick Galbraith, The Times"Imaginative and engaging" -- Country LifeAcclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of `pilgrimage' in Britain...- £20.00 GBP
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Wild : Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults...- £12.99 GBP
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Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas...- £12.99 GBP
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The History of Magic : From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos. 'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore______________________Three great strands of practice and belief...- £12.99 GBP
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The Living Mountain : A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly...- £14.99 GBP
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Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year
Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily anthology brings you the very best of nature writing from around the world and through the centuries, from Pliny the Elder's...- £20.00 GBP
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Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend
`Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year'�Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire field, an ancient yew tree hid...- £12.99 GBP
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Islands of Abandonment : Life in the Post-Human Landscape
THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR...- £9.99 GBP
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The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way
Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New StatesmanWithout a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on...- £10.99 GBP
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The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
4 stars. Attlee, who knows and loves Italy and the Italians, takes the reader through the country's scented gardens with her sharp descriptions, pertinent stories and quotes and intriguing recipes. I was there with her' Anna del Conte, Sunday TelegraphA delightful book about Italy's...- £10.99 GBP
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The Stripping of the Altars : Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding...- £16.99 GBP
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The Peace of Wild Things : And Other Poems
I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of...- £8.99 GBP
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Salt On Your Tongue : Women and the Sea
An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through...- £10.99 GBP
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La Serenissima : The Story of Venice
`Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, `is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city's story embodies the hard reality...- £14.99 GBP
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Fifteen Wild Decembers
In the secluded Yorkshire countryside, Emily Brontë and her siblings while away their days crafting intricate imaginary worlds and wandering the untamed moors surrounding their family abode. As they're thrust into the necessity of earning a living, each sibling grapples with the transition, but...- £14.99 GBP
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Meadowland : the private life of an English field
_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long grass?Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John...- £10.99 GBP
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Sea Room
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis....- £10.99 GBP
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Wanderers : A History of Women Walking
Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing...- £9.99 GBP
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Finding Hildasay : How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness
The Sunday Times Bestseller - As featured on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild. Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK - his dog Jet in tow - and rebuilds his life, step by step. With a foreword...- £10.99 GBP
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The Island of Missing Trees
Honoured with a place on the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist and celebrated as a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, this captivating tale has also captured the heart of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1974 Cyprus, two star-crossed...- £9.99 GBP
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The King's General
Penned at Menabilly, the estate that inspired Manderley in Rebecca, The King's General marks Daphne du Maurier's first novel set in this iconic locale. Sparked by a macabre 19th-century discovery, this tale transports readers to the tumultuous 17th century, weaving a narrative of a...- £9.99 GBP
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Fabric : The Hidden History of the Material World
Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail'A gorgeous adventure through the history of cloth' - StylistThe Sunday Times...- £12.99 GBP
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Storyland : Children's Edition - discover the magical myths and lost legends of Britain
Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland - Ben Miller IMMERSE YOURSELF IN MIST AND MAGIC AND DISCOVER HEROES AND MONSTERS RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP . . . You will have heard of Thor, Medusa and Hercules. But what...- £14.99 GBP
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The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon,...- £10.99 GBP
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Landlines : The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCEJoin Raynor and Moth on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from Scotland to the South West Coast Path in this powerful account of our country's land, and the people...- £10.99 GBP
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