From baker, beekeeper and birdwatcher, to falconer, farrier and forager, join poet Angus and printmaker Lilly as they explore the British Isles, uncovering and celebrating our crafts and traditions. This collection of poetry and printmaking aims to capture and celebrate the heritage and craftsmanship through 30 poems with accompanying striking mono linocut prints. We read about the salt harvester walking beside the water's edge, the angler watching for hours on end like stooping herons on a rushing bend, the forester whose view is one of a thousand kind in solid spruce or wondering beech, the ploughman trudging in muddied land towing blade and plodding beast, the shepherd from head to source of upland flow. With hand and tool we are invited into the life and craftsmanship that stirs within the great British countryside. With glossary, superb design and illustrations. 96pp.

An idyllic English village on the isle of Purbeck in Dorset, Tyneham and the whole of the surrounding valley was evacuated at short notice towards the end of 1943 to form a long-distance gunnery range. The derelict houses can still be visited and form a monument to the sacrifice made by the local people. Notice of eviction was posted on 16 November, and the evacuation was completed a month later, removing 255 villagers from their houses, some of whom did not survive the shock and the winter hardship. The evacuation took place under cover of official secrecy and those responsible, including the head of local civil defence, Mrs Evelyn Bond, found it a harrowing experience. Churchill pledged that the villagers would return, but in 1947 Attlee's government retained it as one of seven "contentious areas" where no reconciliation of civilian and military interests was found possible. The area's MP Lord Hinchingbrooke led the protests, assisted by celebrities such as Brains Trust veteran CEM Joad, but to no avail. The author charts the continuing protests revived in the 1960s by Rodney Legg and the Tyneham Action Group. This massive book puts the fate of Tyneham and the Lulworth ranges in the context of the society and politics of the era, starting with the use of the area as a tank firing range in the 1920s. The author sees Tyneham as the focus for different kinds of English patriotism, with protesters including demobilised combatants, Tory grandees and bohemians embracing a back-to-nature lifestyle. In the 1930s the poet, visionary and rural campaigner Rolf Gardiner set up an influential arts centre at Springhead. Gardiner had travelled extensively in Germany and admired some aspects of the Hitler youth movement, leading the author to ask "No such thing as a Dorset Nazi party?" This book was controversial on its first release in 1995, and it makes an interesting read. 15.6 x 23.3 cm, 650 pages, softback, photos, A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic.

Gang warfare, audacious bank heists, floral tributes for James Bulger, killing sprees and IRA bombs, the gallery uses photographs from Mirrorpix's impressive archive. It is a firsthand look at some of Britain's darkest moments. Because courtroom trials are never televised, the public must rely on the quaint tradition of courtroom sketches and newspaper reports, the one realm of crime journalism that has remained unchanged over the last century. When it comes to crime scenes, criminals and police procedure, our media is now being allowed increasingly intimate coverage with CCTV and bodycam footage. For most of the past century however it was the work of the press photographer that got us as close to the real crime as we could ever wish to get. The haunting quality of this gallery of pictures partly lies in what they leave to our worried imaginations. A crime scene with the victim covered up, the front of a house that holds dreadful secrets within. The face of a serial killer. We may never hear the voices of Dr Crippen, Dr Reginald Christie or John George Haigh. Instead we gaze at their photographs, searching for a hint of evil in their unremarkable faces. Here are Whitechapel streets, the murder scene of 41 year old Mary Ann Nichols, a prostitute who was Jack the Ripper's first victim and every other one of his victims, captured here in nostalgic photographs, and some of the tatty old houses long since demolished. We see macabre scenes such as police digging for bodies at No. 10 Rillington Place and removing furniture for forensic examination. Members of the general public, little boys in particular, climb the fence to look over as detectives search for remains and clues at the scene of the Acid Bath Murders. See scenes from the search and digging on Saddleworth Moor in October 1965 looking for victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and a poignant picture of the mother of Lesley Ann Downey looking on. Angry crowds greet the murderers outside the court in Manchester and a worried but good looking young Ian Brady is taken away in a police car in May 1966, his image captured through the window. There is the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe case, searching the garden at 23 Cranley Gardens home of serial killer Dennis Nilsen, a picture of the bathroom where he butchered and dismembered the bodies of his victims and the actual tie he used to strangle his victims. Rosemary and Fred West and their notorious basement is pictured, Dr Harold Shipman's surgery in Hyde, Dr Hawley Crippen extradited back to Britain from Canada in August 1910 following the murder of his wife, caught on camera as he boards the ship, and his accomplice and lover Ethel Neave in the dock at the Old Bailey in October 1910. Fully illus, 144pp, 17 x 19cm.

'The greatest living writer on the English countryside...Blythe's writing dances with self-deprecating wit, rebellious asides, sharp portraits of fellow writers and notes of worldliness.' - Patrick Barkham, Guardian. With all the charm, wonder and eccentricity, here is country life in which to immerse yourself in an East Anglian year as we are reminded of why we love and value the rhythms and realities of rural life. Light as air and full of philosophy, the book is time travel within a sentence, a latter-day Book of Hours to turn to for amusement, inspiration and comfort. Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year's Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in the village church, Ronald Blythe invites us to witness a simple life richly lived. He meditates on his life and faith, on literature, art and history, and our place in the landscape. Blythe lived at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home was Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries. With many biblical and literary references from the enthusiastic church warden, author of Akenfield and the Word column in Church Times. 472pp woodcut illus.