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One Garden Against the World by Kate Bradbury – Review
By Barney Bardsley When wildlife writer Kate Bradbury started to write this book, in April 2022, she was filled with ... -
A Mudlarking Year by Lara Maiklem – Review
By David Schuster Lara Maiklem is a magician, pulling beauty out of the ooze of the River Thames both literally ... -
A Year of Birdsong & A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe In these early days of a new springtime when the chorus of birds is slowly swelling and ... -
The Lost Flock by Jane Cooper – Review
By Clare Jenkins Orkney is a great place for bird-watching, perhaps less well-known for sheep-spotting. Yet, as well as having ... -
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones by Hettie Judah – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe Hettie Judah is one of the United Kingdom’s leading art critics and commentators, and principal art critic ... -
Next To Nature: A Lifetime In The English Countryside by Ronald Blythe – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe Ronald Blythe died on January 14th, 2023, just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. Blythe, the ... -
Why We Garden by Claire Masset – Review
By Barney Bardsley This well-researched and peaceful book introduces us not just to the many benefits that gardening can bring ... -
The Heritage Herbal: Recipes And Remedies For Modern Living by Sonya Patel Ellis – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe Sonya Patel Ellis has been an established author, writer and publisher, focusing on plants, gardening and horticulture ... -
All My Wild Mothers by Victoria Bennett – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe There are some books that you read, knowing that they will stay with you for a long ... -
A Year Full of Flowers by Sarah Raven – Review
By Gail Schuster Many people will be familiar with Sarah Raven, having seen her on television in the BBC’s Great ... -
The England Coast Path by Stephen Neale – Review
By David Schuster Very soon, something incredible will be possible for the first time: to walk the full coastline of ... -
The Yorkshire Forager by Alysia Vasey – Review
By David Schuster The Yorkshire Forager is not the book I’d expected – it’s so much more. What I’d anticipated ...