The Countryside, Country Life

Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to the seaside. But Fate ha...

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...

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

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

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of h...

'I think I bought a house', I said, still slightly stunned. I've spent longer choosing a tie. First, a dream of escaping the city ... and then a c...

Cranborne Chase is an area of outstanding natural beauty in southern England, encompassing the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Here r...

In Watershed Days, the reader embarks on a wide array of adventures shared in seasonal order over a period of two years, 2005-2007, yet spanning in...

Since his rise to fame in 1967 when his work The Peregrine was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, J A Baker has captured the popular imaginati...

Dartmoor is one of the few wilderness areas remaining in the UK beautiful, mysterious and sometimes dangerous. From its rich, moss-covered ancient...

In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cliff-top cottage in Dorset, where he embarked on a series...