The countryside, country life: general interest

When two city girls embark on an afternoon of idle window-shopping in Worcestershire and end up buying a horse, their lives swerve gloriously off course.

Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary garden birds and the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her doors to them.

Ein ländliches, fröhliches Tauffest wird zum Rahmen einer schaurigen Geschichte.

Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity?

A perennial favourite among flower-buyers, Tulips is next in the strand of Pavilion's successful and stylish floral gardening companions.

When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines.

Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book covers all aspects of the plant life of Britain and Ireland.

In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions.

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A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks.

This lushly illustrated and fully comprehensive book about the wildlife, landscapes and history of Pembrokeshire is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the incredible wealth of biodiversity present in the region.

Loch Lomondside is celebrated for its outstanding scenery.

'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The FieldA few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul.

Während der Zeitgeist einmal mehr nach Utopia entwischt, betrachtet Roger Scruton die sitzengelassene Gegenwart: in zwölf Essays denkt er nach übers Regieren, Bauen und Tanzen, über das Sprechen vom Unsagbaren, über Trauern und Sterben, darüber, wie so getan wird, als ob, wie Leute sich hinterm Bildschirm verstecken, wie Tiere geliebt und Etiketten geklebt werden, über das Bewahren der Natur und die Verteidigung des Westens.

Psychosocial Resource Variables in Cancer Studies reviews the literature on selected psychosocial resource variables in cancer in order to raise and examine conceptual and methodological issues and to offer suggestions for future directions in the field.

We have tried our best in this scientific book to prepare analysis regarding great work of literature or even some newly written works by some postmodern poets in a new and psychological way; opening doors into the complex networks of the mind; proving once more that our imagination and creativity can outweigh the rigid AI and its cronies.

'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'.

Die mit der Kuh tanztAls Madeleine zum Campen nach Österreich fährt, ahnt sie noch nicht, welche Wendung ihr Leben hier nehmen wird.

'Funny and well observed, this timely novel explores the isolation of new motherhood O'Keeffe examines themes of class, race, privilege and gender with a deft touch which will speak loudly to a certain generation.

__________________'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMESThe Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Paul's life at home in the country with his animalsPaul O'Grady's Country Life for the first time gives a glimpse into the home life of one of Britain s best loved stars, alongside the animals he adores.

In Dip, Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming.

'[A] joyously readable book- it riffs along like breeze in the hedgerow.

The comfort food of cottage life books - satisfying, unforgettable, and inevitably nostalgic.

This unique volume of thirty essays, by fifty-three internationally known scholars, honours C.

Gerd Bayer reiste als Modefotograf rund um die Welt.

A collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important poets'Everyone should be reading her' OBSERVER'One of the most accomplished poets of her generation'GUARDIANThese poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis.

The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens.

'An essential and fascinating book .

Mushrooms, the first of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides a remarkable insight into the natural and human world of fungi.

Acclaimed novelist Brad Kessler lived in New York City but longed for a life on the land where he could grow his own food.

Cranborne Chase is an area of chalk highland and valleys traversing Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

Over 40 years ago, Carole Bamford began a journey towards a more conscious way of life.

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

A stunning book from Amanda Owen - shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5's Our Yorkshire Farm - that brings her world to life in glorious colour.

The first comprehensive book to be published about the wildlife of the Brecon Beacons is a much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series, and reveals the natural wonders of this seemingly wild and inhospitable mountain landscape.

Join celebrated naturalist Stephen Moss, host award-winning BBC series Springwatch and author of The Robin, for a year in the idyllic village of Mark on the Somerset Levels a watery wonderland rich in nature and wildlife, from birds to butterflies to badgersAs the year unfolds, Moss transports the reader to the entrancing landscape of flora and fauna that accompanies the dawn of each month.

A definitive account of the bright-eyed assassins of the British countryside.

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain.

Britain's gardens are a vast, living landscape and the home to hundreds of species of birds.

'A memorable, oddly beautiful book' Wall Street Journal'A marvellous glimpse of the Japan that rarely peeks through the country's public image' Washington PostOne sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan.

For Richard and Sarah, leaving the rat-race of London for the sleepy village of Worth feels like a dream come true.

The Trespasser's Companion is a short, celebratory and urgent book about the land and our access to it.

Given the underlying topography, the scenery over most of Britain has been created largely by human activities.

'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic DyerFoxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination.

How and why the New Forest has evolved to be an area of international importance - and Britain's richest 'nature reserve'.

Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health.