The Countryside, Country Life

Cows and Catastrophes includes tales of author Brindley Hosken's 40 years of farming on the beautiful Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, where he has li...

The fascinating and quirky story of how a gang of eccentric female philanthropists helped the National Trust to save rural Britain in the 1930s. ...

Pigs, Poultry and Poo is the story of two people who change their lives and discover a whole new world. Their first step is a move from living and...

Writing in the Foreword, Jonathan Young, Editor of The Field, says: 'Field readers always have the solution to a problem, whether it's a pattern f...

For 70 years, readers have been enjoying Meinecke's classic odes to the simple life, Your Cabin in the Woods (1943) and Cabin Craft and Outdoor Liv...

Mike Tomkies gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature around him, in a harsh and testing environment of unrivalled beauty. Vivid col...

Sheep have to be one of the most versatile livestock animals on the planet. All-in-one grazing and fertilising machines, they provide meat and milk...

A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture.The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling f...

The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by wr...

With over one hundred fantastic photographs of horses and people on the move, action shots on the 'flashing lane', handlers and their horses enjoyi...

'Evocative and intelligent' Guardian Discover the secret history of our green belts.The first book to tell the story of Britain's green belts, Outs...

In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, a...

The Great Wood of Caledon - the historic native forest of Highland Scotland - has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it...

_________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESWINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015What really goes on in the long gra...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summe...

This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year living wild in a tent around Britain. With a ba...

In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors. The summers and winters he spent there were full o...

''Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.''-The Telegraph ''A joyful reminder of why nature, being outsid...

The start of a brand new series from bestselling author Fay Keenan.Life in London has lost its sparkle for Stella Simpson.So when she gets the oppo...

'Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life a wonderful escapade Fiona Gibson Never say never to falling in loveVal didnt expect to be startin...

Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017Can Britain make room for wildlife? Stephen Moss believes it can. The newspaper headlines tell us tha...

Longlisted for the Andre Simon Awards 2023 Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2023 BBC Radio 4s The Food Programme Bes...

Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his t...

Thanks to James Herriot, the Dales have fame and popularity worldwide. The Herriot books introduced a huge public to the colourful life of a rural ...

With an entertaining and highly detailed narrative Peter Brandon takes us on a tour of Sussex's market towns, hills, castles, seaside resorts, gard...

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?The story behind N...

'Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life a wonderful escapade Fiona Gibson Never say never to falling in loveVal didnt expect to be startin...

Let a little wildness in. Adventure is closer than you think. A lavishly illustrated celebration of the wonders that await in the outside world; t...

An ingenious and invigorating insight into the essential wildness within us all. Chris Packham As our busy, technology-driven lives become more ...

Fall in love with Sarah Bennett's bestselling Mermaids Point series!Bestselling author Alex Nelson is slowly coming apart at the seams after a fail...