Rural Communities

'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine ...

After 20 years working as a professional biologist, the author decided to 'retire' to the Highlands, moving with his wife to a croft at the edge of...

Murder is a dish best served ice cold... Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-age together in the small, idyllic town of Dewstow, ...

Born in 1943, Richard Pottinger grew up in and around the small rural villages near Cirencester, Gloucestershire. His engaging childhood reminiscen...

In this book, originally published in 1937, the acclaimed writer and engraver Clare Leighton takes us on a tour of her favourite country subjects, ...

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.'The bes...

Known as the 'grandmother of herbalism', Juliette de Bairacli Levy travelled throughout Europe and North America in pursuit of her passion for herb...

Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated. Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the cree...

In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores...

'I thoroughly enjoyed this intriguing mystery set in a beautiful location with deliciously menacing undercurrents.' Frances EveshamIt was meant to ...

As the snowflakes fall, new love blossoms...When teacher Florence Ashton receives a surprise inheritance, she decides to make the life-changing dec...

As the snowflakes fall, new love blossoms...When teacher Florence Ashton receives a surprise inheritance, she decides to make the life-changing dec...

'One of the most striking crime novels of the year.' Daily MailA murdered schoolteacher. A police force under attack. A teen hiding secrets beneath...

For decades, weve heard that local, renewable power is on the horizon, and cheaper technologies will one day revolutionise our energy system. Miche...

When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her ...

This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring ho...

Drawing on a range of sources from cycling club journals to the writings of H.G. Wells, Revolution illuminates the major impact the bicycle had on ...

This inspiring and practical handbook draws on the wisdom of a wide variety of practitioners in ten key areas that enable village churches to flour...

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal--that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as ...

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal--that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as ...

Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the int...

At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were...

This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring ho...