A guide to finding and preparing food from hedgerows, parks, fields, woods, rivers and seashore. It covers foraging in the urban environment as well as the countryside. It shows the reader Where, How and When to find the best edible berries, leaves, flowers, mushrooms, seaweed, shellfish and snails,[...]

This book is the Winner of The Thwaites Wainright Prize 2015. What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the se[...]

Set in Glasgow in the 1930s, Young James Herriot is the fascinating story of Herriot's formative years at veterinary college, recounting the tales behind his calling to work with animals and his early friendships. With no modern drugs, and a lot of trial-and-error, James sets about learning how to t[...]