I am not very good at keeping a record of all the book titles I come across and mean to read. With good intentions I start an ABC-folder, then end up with notes on bits of paper, newspaper cuttings and photo's taken in bookshops, and emails. Anyway, I thought I would make a list of potential titles for this blog (many provided by you). I already own a few of them which I will write about. The steam has gone from this blog a bit, I think because I have covered all my favourite titles. But I do mean to carry on.
As I was making this list I listened to a wonderful podcast on Dervla Murphy (my favourite travel writer) by Slightly Foxed
I do recommend it, I discovered new things about her and look forward to rereading some of her books.
Next I will listen to Slightly Foxed podcast 13, about Nature Writing.
Here is the list. Any additions will be gratefully received! I will be updating this list now and again.
Titles added after 12 May 2025 are printed in bold face
Neil Ansell: Deep Country
Diana Ashworth: Iolo's Revenge
Dave Atkins: The Cuckoo in June
Lillian Beckwith: The Hills is Lonely a.o.
Richard Benson: Farm
Teleri Bevan: Guardian of Snowdonia
Teleri Bevan: They Dared to Make a Difference
Dan Boothby: Island of Dreams
Sally Borst: Self Deficiency
Hope Bourne: Wild Harvest
Mark Boyle: The Way Home
Kate Bradbury: The Bumble Bee Flies Anyway
Steve Brown: A Song for Ewe
Hilary Burden: A Story of Seven Summers
Daniel Butler: Urban Dreams, Rural Realities
Nancy Campbell: Thunderstone
Cassels and Baer: Our Wild Farming Life
Mary Clifford: Hill-Farm Hazard
Janet Corke: A Hidden Home in the Gwydyr Forest
Elisabeth Cragoe: Cowslips and Clover, a.o.
George Courtauld: An Axe, a Spade and Ten Acres
Molly Douglas: Going West with Annabelle
Monica Edwards: The Unsought Farm
T.Firbank: I bought a Mountain
J.A.Fitton
Frank Fraser Darling: Island Years, Island Farm
Mary Elizabeth Fricke: My Life on a Missouri Hog Farm
Joyce Fussey
Carol Madeline Graham: A Shoulder on the Hill
Charlotte Gray: Sisters in the Wilderness
Jenny Green: A Foot in the Bucket
E.M.Harland: Farmer's Girl, a.o.
G.Henderson: The Farming Ladder
Mary Hiemstra: Gully Farm
Pam Houston: Deep Creek
Sue Hubbell: A Country Year a.o.
John Jackson: A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net
Deborah Kellaway: The Making of an English Country Garden
Rachel Knappett: A Pullet on the Midden
Patrick Laurie: Native
June Knox-Mawer: SA Ram in the Well
Margaret Leigh: A Spade among the Rushes
Jackie Moffat: The Funmy Farm
C.Munro: Ponies at the Edge of the World
Sarah Olds: Twenty Miles from a Match
Elaine Penwarden: It's the Plants that Matter
B.Plummer: The Cottage at the End of the World
Sue Powell: Holding on a Hillside
James Rebanks: The Sheperd's Life
C.Reynolds: Glory Hill Farm
Patrick Rivers: Living on a Little Land
Cecil Roberts: Gone Rustic
Rebecca Schiller: Earthed
Kay Sexton: The Allotment Diaries
Ken Smith: The Way of the Hermit
Lalage Snow: My Family and Other Seedlings
Tina Spencer-Knott Fools Rush In
E.Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Mark Sundeen: The Unsettlers
Derek Tangye: many books
Thelwell: A Millstone Round my Neck
Iain R.Thomson Isolation Shepherd
Marjorie Hessell Tiltman: A Little Place in the Country, a.o.
Catherine Parr Trail: The Canadian Settler's Guide
Sally Urwin: Diary of a Pint-sized Farmer
P.Waling: Counting Sheep
Terry Walton: My Life on a Hillside Allotment
Janet White: The Sheep Stell
Henry Williamson: Tales of a Devon Village a.o.
a.o. = and others
