Grave Goods – Maxim Peter Griffin.
Maxim Peter Griffin joins us for this Grave Goods outing. Maxim is an artist, writer and illustrator currently specialising in the landscape of Lincolnshire...
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Grave Goods – Edward Parnell.
In this outing, writer Edward Parnell selects which Grave Goods he’d take on the Awfully Big Adventure. Edward’s most recent book, ‘Ghostland’ is a...
Grave Goods – Zoe Gilbert.
For this Grave Goods adventure, we invite author Zoe Gilbert to select the five objects she’d like to accompany her on the Awfully Big...
Book Review – Copsford, Walter Murray
Reviewed by Henry Rothwell. When the young Walter Murray first encountered Copsford in the first half of the 1920s, it was a dilapidated if...
Grave Goods – Jeff Noon.
For this Grave Goods selection, we’re delighted to welcome Jeff Noon. Jeff was born in Manchester in 1957, trained in the visual arts and...
Book Review – Ghostland, Edward Parnell.
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell. Review by Barbara Chamberlin (see bottom of page for bio). The British landscape, be...
Shams, Shellbacks and Sons of Rest – a Tramp Terminology.
This incomplete glossary has been compiled from the works of Jim Phelan ( 1895–1966). For those who have yet to encounter him, Phelan was a...
An Incomplete Romani Glossary.
The following glossary was taken from ‘A Time from the World’, by Rowena Farre. Though of non-Romani origin herself, she frequently joined various groups of...
Grave Goods – David Gange.
Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the interviewee selects five items they’d like to accompany them to the afterlife. On...
Grave Goods – Hookland.
Welcome to Grave Goods, a series of interviews in which the interviewee selects five items they’d like to accompany them to the afterlife. This...
‘Wild Life in a Southern County’ by Richard Mabey.
‘Richard Mabey is among the best writers at work in Britain. I don’t mean among the best nature writers, I mean the best writers,...
Long Live Great Bardfield, by Tirzah Garwood
Edited and with a preface by Anne Ullmann. 512pp ISBN 9781910263099 Published by Persephone Books. When Tirzah Garwood was 18 she went to Eastbourne...
Wild Life in a Southern County, by Richard Jefferies
‘‘Jefferies’ attention to what he saw is rapt, exact, almost painterly’’ Richard Mabey When Richard Jefferies moved away from his family’s smallholding in north Wiltshire...
Turning the Boat for Home, by Richard Mabey.
Britain’s most-influential nature writer reflects on a lifetime of close observation and celebrates the positive force of the natural world. From the rediscovery of...
Greenery, by Tim Dee.
A masterpiece of nature writing from the author of The Running Sky. One December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were...
