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		<title>Looking for Mr Schwitters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Potter's new book resurrects the pivotal artist Kurt Schwitters and places him firmly in The Lake District, where he lived as a penniless refugee in the years after the Second World War. Derided as a 'degenerate artist' by the Nazis he fled Germany for Norway and then Britain, where he was interned as an 'enemy alien.' At the end of the war he travelled to the Lakes with his young English girlfriend. Renowned for incorporating found objects and rubbish into his art, Schwitters let the spirit of the Lakes creep into his work, dashing off a stream of collages, sculptures, landscapes, portraits, flowers, abstracts and assemblages, which he sold or bartered for essentials. Just months before his pauper's death in Kendal, he embarked upon his last masterpiece, never finished, a walk-in sculpture magicked from a disused barn in the Langdale Valley.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jennifer Potter's new book resurrects the pivotal artist Kurt Schwitters and places him firmly in The Lake District, where he lived as a penniless refugee in the years after the Second World War. Derided as a 'degenerate artist' by the Nazis he fled Germany for Norway and then Britain, where he was interned as an 'enemy alien.' At the end of the war he travelled to the Lakes with his young English girlfriend. Renowned for incorporating found objects and rubbish into his art, Schwitters let the spirit of the Lakes creep into his work, dashing off a stream of collages, sculptures, landscapes, portraits, flowers, abstracts and assemblages, which he sold or bartered for essentials. Just months before his pauper's death in Kendal, he embarked upon his last masterpiece, never finished, a walk-in sculpture magicked from a disused barn in the Langdale Valley.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The Icknield Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 'The Icknield Way', Edward Thomas walks one of the great ancient footpaths of England, The Icknield Way, which runs from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Suffolk, and connects to the Great Ridgeway, and has a claim to be one of Britain's oldest roads. In startling and evocative prose, Thomas recounts the history of the path through the ages, tells us how it was established, the people who have used it and takes us on a journey through time and place.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[In 'The Icknield Way', Edward Thomas walks one of the great ancient footpaths of England, The Icknield Way, which runs from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Suffolk, and connects to the Great Ridgeway, and has a claim to be one of Britain's oldest roads. In startling and evocative prose, Thomas recounts the history of the path through the ages, tells us how it was established, the people who have used it and takes us on a journey through time and place.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The Charm of Birds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First published in 1927, 'The Charm of Birds' was an immediate bestseller, and combined an amateur ornithologist's keen eye with enthusiasm and a remarkably modern sensibility and style. In particular Grey, much better known as the statesman who guided British Foreign Policy in the early decades of the 20th century, broke with the traditions of an earlier age which saw shooting as indivisible from a love of nature. Grey's delight in the birds he found around both his home in Northumberland and his Hampshire cottage shines from every page. Nearly 100 years after the first publication of 'The Charm of Birds' a whole new generation of readers is rediscovering Grey's unique perspective, and appreciating again the freshness of the prose.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[First published in 1927, 'The Charm of Birds' was an immediate bestseller, and combined an amateur ornithologist's keen eye with enthusiasm and a remarkably modern sensibility and style. In particular Grey, much better known as the statesman who guided British Foreign Policy in the early decades of the 20th century, broke with the traditions of an earlier age which saw shooting as indivisible from a love of nature. Grey's delight in the birds he found around both his home in Northumberland and his Hampshire cottage shines from every page. Nearly 100 years after the first publication of 'The Charm of Birds' a whole new generation of readers is rediscovering Grey's unique perspective, and appreciating again the freshness of the prose.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The Book of Bogs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is an anthology built from a shared passion for often overlooked and threatened landscapes - bogs and other peatlands. And like peat, this book is full of living things, including stories. Stories of scientific study, archaeological discovery; personal stories of suffering and growth. Stories in fiction and fact; in poetry. Stories of damage and threat; of Walshaw Moor; of adventure and love; the peatlands of Papua New Guinea, the Flow Country, Cors Caron and much more.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is an anthology built from a shared passion for often overlooked and threatened landscapes - bogs and other peatlands. And like peat, this book is full of living things, including stories. Stories of scientific study, archaeological discovery; personal stories of suffering and growth. Stories in fiction and fact; in poetry. Stories of damage and threat; of Walshaw Moor; of adventure and love; the peatlands of Papua New Guinea, the Flow Country, Cors Caron and much more.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The wild garden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally published in 1870, 'The Wild Garden' was a sensation, up-ending the conventions of Victorian garden-making, sweeping away formal ideas and artifice, and replacing it with a naturalistic approach, favouring native plants. William Robinson's book effectively introduced the idea of the cottage garden and the herbaceous border.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Originally published in 1870, 'The Wild Garden' was a sensation, up-ending the conventions of Victorian garden-making, sweeping away formal ideas and artifice, and replacing it with a naturalistic approach, favouring native plants. William Robinson's book effectively introduced the idea of the cottage garden and the herbaceous border.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>We came by sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA['We Came by Sea' is an untold story of the small boats crisis, a story which shows the best of us. It is the story of the volunteers who help thousands of refugees in Calais, of the lifeboat crews mounting one of the great search and rescue operations of all time, of an unrecognised, uncelebrated, all but unknown Britain which is giving its all to help the vulnerable and desperate. It is a journey through an unexamined nation, a nation which is as truly great and good as the people in the dinghies believe Britain to be. It is not the story we have been told, and it is a true story.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA['We Came by Sea' is an untold story of the small boats crisis, a story which shows the best of us. It is the story of the volunteers who help thousands of refugees in Calais, of the lifeboat crews mounting one of the great search and rescue operations of all time, of an unrecognised, uncelebrated, all but unknown Britain which is giving its all to help the vulnerable and desperate. It is a journey through an unexamined nation, a nation which is as truly great and good as the people in the dinghies believe Britain to be. It is not the story we have been told, and it is a true story.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Angels in the cellar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, after suffering a breakdown and realising that something was desperately wrong with his life, Hahn moved to a decaying vineyard in the Loire Valley, and slowly began bringing it back to life. Since then he's lived at Le Clos de la Meslerie, making small batch prize-winning organic wines, following principles of regenerative farming. Here, he invites us to spend a year in his company as he reflects on the land, his life, and the lives of the small group of people he works with. We join Peter through the seasons, pruning the vines and harvesting the grapes by hand, before we follow him to the cellar, where the alchemy begins - and the angels take charge. An evocative, poetic account of a year spent working with nature, the book is also a powerful repudiation of the global economy, its obsession with hyper-consumption and its impacts on the land and its ecosystems.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, after suffering a breakdown and realising that something was desperately wrong with his life, Hahn moved to a decaying vineyard in the Loire Valley, and slowly began bringing it back to life. Since then he's lived at Le Clos de la Meslerie, making small batch prize-winning organic wines, following principles of regenerative farming. Here, he invites us to spend a year in his company as he reflects on the land, his life, and the lives of the small group of people he works with. We join Peter through the seasons, pruning the vines and harvesting the grapes by hand, before we follow him to the cellar, where the alchemy begins - and the angels take charge. An evocative, poetic account of a year spent working with nature, the book is also a powerful repudiation of the global economy, its obsession with hyper-consumption and its impacts on the land and its ecosystems.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>A Venetian bestiary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of all the cities that the travel writer Jan Morris knew, it was Venice which held a special place in her heart, a place she knew intimately and about which she wrote with great passion and knowledge. In 'A Venetian Bestiary' she explores the animals, real, imaginary and artistic which haunt the city of floating dreams. This new edition is a beautiful small hardback, illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs which perfectly accompany Morris' words.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Of all the cities that the travel writer Jan Morris knew, it was Venice which held a special place in her heart, a place she knew intimately and about which she wrote with great passion and knowledge. In 'A Venetian Bestiary' she explores the animals, real, imaginary and artistic which haunt the city of floating dreams. This new edition is a beautiful small hardback, illustrated throughout with paintings and photographs which perfectly accompany Morris' words.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The English path</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emma]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Until the twentieth century most country dwellers made their short journeys on foot, via footpaths and bridleways which connected villages, and took people to neighbouring villages, to church, to market, to their places of work. In 'The English Path', Kim Taplin (1943-2024) explores the way that poets and writers, from Jane Austen to Iain Sinclair, have written about these vital routes, which sustained rural life for centuries, and which were also powerful visions of arriving and leaving, but are today under constant threat.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[Until the twentieth century most country dwellers made their short journeys on foot, via footpaths and bridleways which connected villages, and took people to neighbouring villages, to church, to market, to their places of work. In 'The English Path', Kim Taplin (1943-2024) explores the way that poets and writers, from Jane Austen to Iain Sinclair, have written about these vital routes, which sustained rural life for centuries, and which were also powerful visions of arriving and leaving, but are today under constant threat.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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