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Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read. Katie Fforde Filled with warm and likea...

England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particular...

Allan Cunningham's Traditional Tales is a selection of folk stories steeped in the traditions and popular literature of southern Scotland and north...

A charming guide to the story of the English village, celebrating this beloved heart of the countryside.The village remains a quintessential and m...

With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern fa...

In this inspirational and practical guide to country life, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of ...

Malcolm Alexander is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets MATT GAW_____________________An ode to island life in all its glorious foibles THE HERA...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

A unique photographic portrait of the King Country. Sara McIntyre, the daughter of the artist Peter McIntyre, was nine years old when her family fi...

Lucian Wing is the sheriff of a backwoods county in Vermont, a hardscrabble place far from the picture-postcard gaze. He is also a man with a probl...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? ...

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glit...

Journey into the heartland of rural Ireland, in words and images, from the 1930s to today. Meet the characters behind the Ploughing Championships, ...

The pattern of rural life in early medieval Spain is here vividly brought to life through careful examination of contemporary documents. In the ea...

The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural cr...

The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branchs epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of t...

This book is about the generations of people who have made the farms we know today. Engaging, enjoyable and informative, the author uses various fa...

Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things will get better next year. As on...

Today the federal government owns and manages roughly 635640 million acres of land. Federal lands and resources have been important in American his...

Our rural communities are home to some of the most hard working and fiercely self-reliant Americans in the United States. Strong and secure rural c...