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]]> Populated by wonderful characters, this is H E Bates at his finest, writing about the rivers that influenced him most. ]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/men-the-fields/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/men-the-fields/ Bell's book describes a life about to change in the English Countryside at the outset of the Second World War.]]> Adrian Bell’s travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live. ]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/four-hedges/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/four-hedges/ This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s.
]]> ‘Phrases and images fill you with delight … This is the most honest writing I’ve ever read’ Carol Klein. ]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/sweet-thames-run-softly/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/sweet-thames-run-softly/ A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.]]> In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, armed with a sketchpad and a microscope. From the river’s source at the edge of the Cotswold Hills to the bustle of London’s docks, Sweet Thames Run Softly is a charming, often eccentric account. ]]> https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/shepherds-life/ Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/shepherds-life/ Hudson's masterful book about shepherding in the southern counties of England was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in 1910.]]> Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of humble birth, poachers, gypsies, farmers and labourers striving to survive on the land. As we read, the cumulative affect of their stories becomes much more than a record of rural life. ]]>