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 'The Gamekeeper at Home'
by Richard Jefferies
Hardback Price: £18.95      ISBN 9781900318204
Originally published in 1878, this remarkably detailed
account of the domestic and professional world of the gamekeeper (Old Velveteen) is well established as one of the finest books about English rural life. Authentic and beautifully written with the understanding of a true countryman, its
appeal is undiminished by time and is a must for any countrylover's bookshelf.
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 'The Amateur Poacher'
by Richard Jefferies
HardbackPrice:£18.95      ISBN 9781900318228
First published in 1879, this is a new edition of Richard Jefferies' classic book regarded as one of the treasures of sporting literature. Son of a Wiltshire farmer, he had roamed the woods and fields from an early age, gaining a thorough knowledge of his subject. His detailed observations and accessible style make this a favouritewith both shooters
and country lovers.
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 'Where the Bright Waters Meet'
by Harry Plunket Greene
HardbackPrice:£19.95     ISBN 9781900318211
Among the handful of books on trout fishing that live from one generation of anglers to the next, the most entertaining is Where the Bright Waters Meet, first published in 1924. This new edition of Harry Plunket Greene's classic book set in the Hampshire village of Hurstbourne Priors, is taken from the revised text of 1936, the last edition that appeared in his lifetime.



'Fly Fishing for Grayling'
by John Roberts
Paperback Price: £17.99      ISBN 9781900318112
This new book is the fruit of John Roberts' many years quest as a grayling specialist that took him to Scandinavia, Canada and the  USA as well as Eastern Europe in pursuit of his quarry. Illustrated with fine colour plates of grayling flies this is an authoritative book and an essential source for all grayling fishermen.  "Definitive" Trout and Salmon



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 'Pike and the Pike Angler'
by Fred Buller
Hardback Price: £27.95     ISBN 9781900318266
Fred Buller is well known as one of England's finest all-round anglers. Throughout his life he has made a particular study of the pike, regarded in many European countries as the sublime sporting fish. Divided into three parts, this new edition of the definitive book on the sport, is full of fascinating material derived from lessons and lore. Enlightening and entertaining - a timeless classic.

'Winged Friends'
 by M.Y. Ghorpade
Paperback Price: £9.99     ISBN 9781900318235
Written by a former Member of Parliament in India and dedicated to the children of the Sandur Residential School school in Shivapur where he now teaches, this book recalls the bird life and nature in the Sandur valley before change and environmental pollution took their toll. Well observed and gloriously illustrated with colour photographs by the multi award winning author, this will appeal to bird and nature lovers alike.


'Countryman's Cooking'
 by W.M.W. Fowler
Hardback Price: £16-95      ISBN 9781900318297
This entertaining cookbook by a former Lancaster bomber pilot is as fresh and informative today as when Willie Fowler first set out to instruct his fellow males in the principles of cookery. More a philosophy of life than simply a book of ways and means with food, his writing and observations reflect the succulent wholesomeness of English cooking at his best.




'Fishing from Afar'
by Stephen Johnson
Hardback Price: £25.00      ISBN 9781900318242
Stephen Johnson wrote this classic fishing book in a German prison camp after his plane was shot down in 1942. First published in 1947,this new edition with its exceptionally entertaining descriptions of angling adventures in Skye and elsewhere is introduced by Tom Fort.



'One Man Went to Mow'
 by Robin Page
Hardback Price:£14.95      ISBN 9781900318150
This collection is sure to appeal to Robin Page's many
country readers. A tireless campaigner for the countryside and its traditions, Robin Page writes with passion and honesty, fighting against political mismanagement of the country and pleading the case for threatened wildlife. His large following will find plenty to delight them here.



'On the Mahogany Trail'
by Donald Macintosh
Hardback Price: £19.95      ISBN 9781900318143
Donald Macintosh quit his Perthshire home at an early age for the West African rainforests, where be spent over 25 years surveying trees in the last great days of the regulated timber trade before the clear felling of recent times. Filled with fascinating, colourful stories and descriptions of a time now past, this book also provides detailed information on all the important African timbers.


'A Gamekeeper's Notebook'
by Owen Jones and Marcus Woodward. 
Harback Price: £18.95      ISBN 9781900318167
This classic country book was first published in 1910.
A Gamekeeper's Notebook provides an absorbing account of the keeper's daily life and work month by month through the seasons.  It reveals the secrets of the trade. the ways of the pheasant and the stoat, the hare and the fox, the badger and the crow, as well as the methods of the night poacher, with long net and snare.   It is probably the most authoritative book of its kind ever produced.
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'Jane Austen Fashion'
 by Penelope Byrde
Hardback Price: £12-95      ISBN 9781900318129
This work by the former Curator of the Museum of Costume and Fashion Research Centre in Bath, is an engaging study of fashion and needlework as featured in the works of Jane Austen who was, herself, an accomplished needlewoman with a fascination for clothes. Delightfully illustrated in colour with many contemporary fashion plates, this is a rare treat for Jane Austen lovers. "This delectable book" The Oldie



'The Gardener's Essential'
 by Gertrude Jekyll
Paperback Price: £8.99      ISBN 9781900318***
Gertrude Jekyll was one of the founding figures of modern British gardening, writing thirteen books and planning over 350 gardens, and this indispensable paperback contains some of her best garden writing. It offers an ingenious distillation of the sound common sense, wise advice and enormous knowledge she included in all her finely written books.
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