Crow Country
10 best books like Crow Country (Mark Cocker): The Inheritors, The Snow Goose, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Attrib. and other stories, Findings, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher, Landmarks
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0156443791 |
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...
| Author | Paul Gallico |
| ISBN | 0140299521 |
Lyrical and touching tale set in WWII, with the climax taking place during Dunkirk. While there's a danger here of crossing over into sentimentality, for me this lovely tale transformed what could have been pat sentiments into something very heartfelt and noble. It's the kind of tale children will...
| Author | Roger Deakin |
| ISBN | 0241141842 |
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element"as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies...
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
| Author | Simon Armitage |
| ISBN | 0571249884 |
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain,...
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
| Author | Lucy Mangan |
| ISBN | 0224098853 |
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...
| Author | Eley Williams |
| ISBN | 1910312169 |
This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one’s thoughts — absurd, encompassing, oblique — may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm.
Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language...
| Author | Kathleen Jamie |
| ISBN | 0954221745 |
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...
| Author | Olivia Laing |
| ISBN | 1847677924 |
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite...
| Author | Simon Barnes |
| ISBN | 0375423559 |
The title of this book is misleading – the book is really all about how to become a proper bird watcher, but all the time with an emphasis on doing it very simply.
He tells us the we must buy a cheap pair of binoculars (bins), get a field guide (a bird recognition book – and the more local/smaller...
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.
Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
| Author | Kerry Hudson |
| ISBN | 1784742457 |
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns
'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...
