Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A countryman's lot A countryman's lot Max Hardcastle Max and Vicky Hardcastle have a daydream. One day, they'll sell their cramped city-centre antiques shop and the overflowing upstairs flat and relocate to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. If they could … OL12993071W
A place in my country A place in my country Ian Walthew x, 309 p. ; 23 cm OL13652878W
Voices of Akenfield Voices of Akenfield Ronald Blythe Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation o… OL15187227W
Mrs Griffin sends her love Mrs Griffin sends her love Miss Read Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand ...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood I c… OL20009194W
A drake at the door A drake at the door Derek Tangye The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a c… OL21765118W
The only way was Essex The only way was Essex Spike Mays "In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there w… OL24289987W
Ring of bright water Ring of bright water Gavin Maxwell,G. Maxwell,Gavin Maxwell,Kate Humble,Mark Adlington A marvellous book about life in a West Highland seaboard cottage with two otters, Mijbil and Edal. OL2461964W
The death of rural England The death of rural England Alun Howkins In the age of material crises of rural areas, worries about environmental damage and factory farming, urban people's attitudes to the countryside have changed. Rural areas are still seen as places to… OL4454346W
The Luttrell village The Luttrell village Sheila Sancha Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter. OL4645444W