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Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist vividly explores the natural world from the perspective of an autistic teenager juggling homework, exams and friendships alongside his life as a conservationist and environmental activist.

The first ever book about the famed illustrator and wood engraver, by the wood engraver Simon Brett. This new biography showcases much of Clifford Webb's surviving work, and will do much to revive interest in him.

This is the first book about the enigmatic author J A Baker, author of The Peregrine.

In this book Claire Leighton takes us on a tour of her favourite country subjects, including primrose picking, the local pub, tramps and the flower show.

Pioneering book of oral history, The Pattern Under the Plough shows that even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was a matter of life or death.

A collection of beautifully illustratedcontemporary folk songs with music scores by Jehanne Mehta, inspired by seasonsand legends, landscapes and heartscapes.

In Wild Twin, the Costa Prize shortlisted author Jeff Young sets out from Liverpool in the 1970s pursuing a vision of becoming a 'wild twin'. In Europe he falls into a fever dream of drugs, dive hotels, poverty, madness and thieving. An extraordinary memoir, a hallucinatory dream book of loss and loneliness, to match his debut Ghost Town.

Limestone Country is a perceptive, lyrical evocation and investigation into four landscapes in Europe and beyond. Seemingly disparate these places are bound together by their limestone geology, by personal experience and Fiona Sampson's unique imagination.

A Sculpture that Sings is a unique book about church bells, bell-ringing and the place of the tradition in the English landscape and its communities. In 2017 the artist David Ward and the composer Orland Gough came together to work with a group of bell-ringers in rural Dorset and later at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Going to Ground is an anthology from Little Toller's online journal, The Clearing. Gathered here is some of the best and most distinctive writing about nature and place, from more than thirty writers celebrating and questioning our landscapes. Contributors include Nancy Campbell, Kathleen Jamie, Tim Dee, Tim Hannigan, Louisa Adjoa Parker.

King of Dust is a craftsman's personal journey through the landscapes of ancient sculpture which first inspired him to pick up tools. This journey through the Romanesque celebrates the lives of medieval carvers and contemporary stonemasons, interwoven with Alex's own life as he becomes a stonemason.

An Almost Impossible Thing follows the lives of six hitherto unknown women gardeners in the years before the First World War, and examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire.

In this recently rediscovered memoir of life in The Women's Land Army, E. M. Barraud writes with remarkable candour and honesty about her life working the land in The Second World War, and Set My Hand Upon The Plough is set to join the ranks of LGBT memoirs, revealing a different side to the Home Front.

A bold and colourful counting book, to learn the numbers one to ten in English and Ukrainian side by side, with cheerful animal and plant illustrations - a fun way to get to know the world of numbers for the young.

A perfect companion for starting to learn everyday Ukrainian and English words, this vibrant book introduces young readers to shapes, colours, objects and words, with bold and appealing illustrations to spark imaginations.

The Allotment is the classic study of allotments, it looks at British society and history through the culture of allotments. With a new introduction by Olivia Laing this book remains as relevant as ever and is essential for everyone interested in social history, land ownership and gardening in twenty-first century Britain.

The perfect companion to starting to learn everyday English and Ukrainian words, this beautiful book is also a treasure trove for children starting to explore the wider world, starting at home, with its familiar objects and rooms.

What happens when we lose something special? What treasures can be found in everyday life? Little Romko is upset when he first loses his special coin. But he soon realises he's discovered something much more valuable. With humour and imagination this wonderful Ukrainian-English picture book turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Sonia and Nika are best friends but live far away from each other: Nika lives on the left bank of the Dnipro River, while Sonia lives on the right. To see each other more often the girls come up with a secret plan which also makes them feel happy!

How many clouds are in the sky? How many rays does the sun have? A fun, beautiful picture book which encourages the reader to be inquisitive. How Many? is a playful counting book that encourages children to keep asking questions about the world.

A beautifully illustrated, heart-warming story about a girl, a cat and their unexpected journey to the sea. Mira has never been to the sea. She's dreamed about going but it's always been too far away. Things change when Mr Catsky arrives and Mira is plunged into an unexpected journey of friendship and imagination.

In 2017 William Henry Searle and his wife Amy lost their baby, Elowen a few days before their due date. In the weeks that followed, unmoored by sadness, what they discovered was that there was no established vocabulary for losing a child. Elowen charts the story of how a love for the natural world sustained Will and he began to live with his grief.

Seining Along Chesil details the working lives of the people who fished along the Dorset coast at Chesil Beach, using traditional seine nets, a way of life that has almost completely died out.

The Lost Orchards charts the decade-long journey made by pomologist Liz Copas and cider-maker Nick Poole across Dorset to discover, propagate and make cider from the county's forgotten cider apples, varieties including Yaffle, Best Bearer and Dewbit.

The debut picture book by Hannah Shuckburgh and Octavia Mackenzie. Archie's Apple is based on the true story of the discovery of a new variety of apple. A picture book to tell us the value of noticing the natural world, and what really matters.

In her mid-twenties, shortly before her father's death, Davina Quinlivan moved from her family home in west London to begin a transitory life in the countryside: here she felt restless and rootless, stuck between Deep England and the technicolour memories of her family's migration story. Beginning in colonial India and Burma, from the indigenous tribes from which the women in Quinlivan's family are descended, and reaching the streets of Southall and Ealing, the stories of her ancestors persisted in the tales, the language, the cooking and culture of her family. Quinlivan conjures a place between continents and worlds in a lyrical debut of migration, and homecoming, marking the arrival of an exceptional new voice.

This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times, reflecting on the misunderstood Goddess, Nemesis.