Attention all shipping: a journey around the shipping forecast - Charlie Connelly

ISBN: 9780349116037

A wonderfully quirky read, taking you to places you only hear about on BBC Radio 4's shipping forecast

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Beat hotel - Barry Miles

ISBN: 9781903809587

Tales of the Beat Generation from a man who witnessed their life and times. Barry Miles' account is drawn from his diaries and notes of the time and gives insight into some of these great literary figures of the 50s and 60s

Country of origin: United States

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Dark star safari: overland from Cairo to Cape Town - Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780140281118

This is a vivid and compelling account of the overland trip from Egypt to South Africa by acclaimed travel writer Paul Theroux. Despite his obvious frustration with the lack of progress and all too often apparent corruption throughout the African continent, this is a passionate and amusing account of the hardships experienced during his physical and emotional journey.

Country of origin: South Africa

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The Day job: adventures of a jobbing gardener - Mark Wallington

ISBN: 9780099472674

Mark Wallington resolves that he is the man to change the comedy scene in Britain and in order to fund this enterprise takes up as a gardener to the residents of North London. This comic book tells the tales of the people he encounters and explores the British obsession that is gardening

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Deleted world - Tomas Transtromer

ISBN: 9781904634485

Wonderful new translations of selected work by Sweden’s best known poet. Bleak snowy landscapes expose the ‘mysterious and unforgivable’. Translated by Robin Robertson

Country of origin: other

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Edge of the Orison: in the traces of John Clare's journey out of Essex - Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 0141012757

Sinclair retraces the poet John Clare's four day, 90 mile walk from the asylum in Essex he had escaped from to his fenland village home - A fascinating read.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Enigma of arrival: a novel in five sections - V.S. Naipaul

ISBN: 9780330487153

An Indian writer from Trinidad to stay in a Wiltshire village and observes changes in himself as well as those in the landscape around him.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Field days: an anthology of poetry - Angela King (ed.)

ISBN: 9781870098731

An anthology of works from over ninety poets taking as its theme that the land and our relationship with it.

Country of origin: other

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A Field guide to getting lost - Rebecca Solnit

ISBN: 9781841957456

Rebecca Solnit's investigations include an eclectic array of examples from disparate areas of human experience illustrating our attitudes and ambivalence to getting lost, both physically and metaphorically.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Glastonbury: an oral history of the music - John Shearlaw

ISBN: 9780091897635

This book gives a real honest insight to the Glastonbury festival from the people who make it happen. With plenty of contribution from big stars who have performed at this event, it's a real must for those who have attended and will make those who haven’t yet, want to go.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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I never knew that about England - Winn Christopher

ISBN: 9780091902070

More obscure and fascinating facts and anecdotes about the towns, villages and cities of England..

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Lost garden - Helen Humphreys

ISBN: 074756261X

Canadian poet Helen Humphrey's beautiful evocation of love in wartime Britain.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Raven black - Ann Cleeves

ISBN: 9780330441148

Set in Shetland, and very atmospheric. This book steps behind the usual tourist view of the island and unpicks the tensions of living in a small and isolated community with extreme weather and a rugged landscape

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Sea room - Adam Nicolson

ISBN: 9780006532019

A biography of three Hebridean Islands written by the author who inherited them on his 21st birthday. He portrays the life of the Shiants describing their landscape, history and their rich geological flower and wildlife as well as the changes to the harsh lives of the human inhabitants in a fascinating history of this remote part of the British isles.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Sharp north - Patrick Cave

ISBN: 9780689872778

An exciting and original thriller that cover environmental and genetic issues. It centres on Mira, who lives in a remote community in Scotland. Her quiet life is shattered when she sees a stranger shot and killed.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Shell house - Linda Newbery

ISBN: 9780099455936

A teenager coming to terms with his sexuality is drawn to a ruined mansion, where his story becomes entwined with that of a previous occupant and World War One soldier. There are some difficult themes but they are written about with sensitivity and adults will be intrigued by the story just as much as teenagers.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Shipping news - Annie Proulx

ISBN: 9781841150598

Evocative descriptions of the Newfoundland coast are the backdrop to this tale of a city dweller escaping to the countryside to rebuild his life following the death of his wife

Country of origin: Canada

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Stately pursuits - Katie Fforde

ISBN: 9780099446682

In a bid to mend her daughter's broken heart, Hetty's Longden's mother despatches her to look after the crumbling stately home of a distant relative where she becomes involved in the life of the local community - chick lit goes wild in the country...

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Summer book - Tove Jansson

ISBN: 9780954221713

Surely one of the most atmospheric and landscape influenced books ever. The island, unnamed – but the scene of summer holidays and the background to the developing relationship between an elderly woman and a child – is as much a character in the narrative as the human protagonists. Atmosphere and landscape in buckets!

Country of origin: other

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Vroom with a view: in search of Italy's dolce vita on a '61 Vespa - Peter Moore

ISBN: 9780553816372

Travel writing with a difference as copywriter Peter Moore turns forty and resolves to fulfil a lifelong wish to travel around Italy on a Vespa.

Country of origin: Italy

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Wanderlust: a history of walking - Rebecca Solnit

ISBN: 9781844675586

In this social history Rebecca Solnit presents a range of famous and not so famous walkers both real and fictional to explore what it means to walk

Country of origin: other

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The Water clock - Jim Kelly

ISBN: 0141009330

Philip Dryden's past is haunted by water and death, so when a frozen mutilated body is pulled out of the Cambridgeshire marshes, he is inevitably drawn into the investigation. The dark, malevolent landscape of the Fens creates a perfect backdrop for this crime novel.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Waterlog: a swimmer's journey through Britain - Roger Deakin

ISBN: 9780099282556

A wonderful description of Britain from a man who swims round the country, through rivers, lakes, dykes, fresh water or salt water.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

ISBN: 0141023540

The love story between Cathy and Heathcliffe could have only ever taken place on the Yorkshire moors. The landscape echoes and shapes the passion of the characters – and it is the landscape that the reader remembers

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Z to Z of Great Britain - Dixe Wills

ISBN: 9781840467543

A traveller's compendium of places in Britain whose name begins with the letter Z. Yes Zabulon, Zeal and Zig Zag Hill are all represented and you can discover their location, the derivations of their names and places of interest when you get there...

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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