Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires.

The private diaries of Alison Uttley, the author of the Little Grey Rabbit books. These beautifully written diaries have been skilfully edited by Denis Judd, one of the Trustees of her Estate.

This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. .

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title celebrates this long tradition with various aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

This is a first-hand account of life as a 16-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s. The author looks back at his experiences as he learned to plough, build a stack, hoe beet and grind the pig food. His accounts of rats and plagues of fleas are factually accurate and told with humour.

Born and brought up in rural Suffolk, Ronald Blythe was fascinated by the rhythms of country life and the stories of the people he had known since childhood. In this perceptive and moving evocation of his home, the villagers speak candidly about their lives, from the reminiscences of survivors of the First World War to a younger generation of farm workers, as well as the personal recollections of

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times , where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

Features a collection of sixty Word From Wormingford columns from the back page of the Church Times , published in the autumn of 2006. This work presents mini essays that reflect the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell.

An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the Church Times , where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.

In his personal view of farming from 1936 to 1949, the author takes us back to the farms with which he was involved from his late teens. Managing pig units and arable enterprises, he encountered gentlemen farmers and land settlement smallholders until he came to Appleacre farm in West Suffolk.

Brought up amid the coaching business, Elizabeth Cotton became the wife of a Suffolk tenant farmer. The diaries she kept between 1854-1869 give accounts of her activities, a social life which included holiday travel in England and France, as well as a range of current fashions and events.

This volume brings together seasonal reflections, weaving together literature, poetry, biography, botany, nature and scripture to offer incisive commentary on contemporary life. The memoirs are rooted in the locality where Ronald Blythe lives and works.