A study of the soldier’s relationship with nature during the first world war
A collage of testimonies from the end of the Thames
A war hero’s battle with dementia is at the heart of a moving family memoir
A Welsh sheep farm is the backdrop for a powerful novel with a rich sense of place
An unconventional biography that pieces together the fragments of a mysterious life
An erudite and resolutely empirical portrait of the author’s four-acre woodland
Eloquent meditations on the elements, from Devon ‘dimpsey’ to Yorkshire ‘donk’
A journey in search of the Green Man’s place in history and myth follows a winding path
A fabulist thriller that is less read on the page than seen in the mind’s eye
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Familiar storytelling tropes are given a new spin in this quirky, and very funny, fable
A deconstruction of hotel mythology is also a deeply personal meditation on the idea of home
Hemingway meets Camus in an Argentine writer’s tale of life on the Paraná Delta
A philosophically minded exploration of Britain’s marginal landscapes
Themes of guilt and responsibility abound in a novel that pivots on a single catastrophic event
The story of contrasting lives in an English village mixes fiction with nature writing
An unsentimental account of sheep-farming by a star of the Twittersphere
The author reflects on the disappearing vocabulary of the natural world
Family secrets are uncovered in an ornate doll’s house
Falconry provides the backdrop for a stunning exploration of personal trauma past and present
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