Years ago I used to follow Elspeth Thompson's blog about her garden by the seaside, and I was shocked and saddened to read about her death in 2010. Yesterday I was leafing through her book A Tale of Two Gardens, and came upon a piece called 21st-Century Self-Sufficiency, about books written by Phil and Maureen Rooksby. I had never heard of them, so naturally I googled their names. And found a website called A Simpler Life , which includes free PDF's of their books. Worth a look!
A blog about books by people who got away from it all. My aim is to find out more about the authors and to discover new titles. I would love to hear from people who share my love of this genre. Contact me, Miki, at farmsonmybookshelfATgmail.com
Monday, 23 May 2022
Phil and Maureen Rooksby
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Oh - I'd forgotten about them. I had a correspondence with him way way back when they still lived in this country - was it Yorkshire?. The books were very odd - all self published and looking like handwriting and odd shapes.
ReplyDeleteI reckon I heard about him from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales as I used to have their newsletter and they would have sold his books.
I see from the website that Maureen died a while back.
Phil now lives on Shetland with a new partner.
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