(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781804995815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780141019956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presented chronologically, this title offers a portrait of England and the English - and the unique place of both in world history. Through the words of those who saw it and made it, it covers: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Peasants' Revolt, Henry VIII's break with Rome, the Great Fire of London, Nelson at Trafalgar, and the world wars.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781849902724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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With no modern drugs, and a lot of trial-and-error, James sets about learning how to treat the local farm animals and the pets of city folk. This book reveals a world now lost to us, showing how life in pre-war Britain changed an enthusiastic young student named Alf Wight into the man who would charm millions of readers the world over.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857526410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781472136206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A very readable history of the British Army that manages to be objective yet sympathetic, and concise while never being superficial
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781804992067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857526472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780552778992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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'BRITAIN'S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER' - THE TIMES
WINNER OF THE THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2015
What really goes on in the long grass
Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadows life from January to December, together with its biography.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857529114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781409102144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781784162429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780755315826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to Basra, this is the autobiography of the man who has seen all British military history unfold in front of his eyes: the British soldier.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857525819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories from folklore, myth and legend.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857524553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS
To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . They are arrogant, as in Aesops The Hare and the Tortoise, and absurd, as in Lewis Carrolls Mad March Hare.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781784160746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Traditional ploughland is disappearing. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. This book tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet to seven-spot ladybirds that eat aphids that eat the crop.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857524560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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But owls with the sapient flatness of their faces, their big, round eyes, their paternal expressions are also reassuringly familiar.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781804991145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857525802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781780224909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857526427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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To love and loathe the fox is a British condition."
The fox is our apex predator, our most beautiful and clever killer.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781784162382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, and brooks of his forty-acre farm.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781784162436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul.
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed Cockshutt wood, a particular wood - three and half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire - that stands as exemplar for all the small woods of England.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781780224916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.
(Hardback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9780857527066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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