Books On The Lane
Miek Zwamborn The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook “Seaweed is so familiar, yet oddly mysterious. Even its names – pepper dulse, sea lettuce, carrageen – are little known to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Continue reading The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook
Jan Zalasiewicz The Planet in a Pebble “Captured within are grand stories that reach back to long dead stars, into the depths of the Earth, to vanished continents, and quiet ocean beds above which strange creatures swam. There is much Continue reading The Planet in a Pebble
Tim Dee Greenery “Greenery is a masterpiece of nature writing, deeply informed, expansive and often profoundly beautiful. Tim Dee’s journey ends where the greenery of the European spring ends: on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in northern Scandinavia, where, Continue reading Greenery
Lamorna Ash “There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, Continue reading Dark, Salt, Clear
Jennifer Lucy Allan “An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound, who lived with it and loathed it, and one woman’s intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature.” Price: £16.99