(Paperback)

Includes simple instructions to develop your puppy into a delightful, obedient and devoted member of your family.

(Hardback)

Popular horseracing correspondent David Ashforth selects these fascinating curiosities of racing and arranged in themes so that the reader can dip in and out.

Owners, jockeys, the horses, racecourses, officials, prizes, trainers and staff, racing journalists, betting, bookmakers, punters, skulduggery all are covered in this delightful collection.

(Hardback)

A modern country postman tells, in a series of short accounts, his highlights delivering the mail to rural characters: encounters with dogs (and bulls), battling the elements, meeting the surprising farmers and cottagers, and seeing the local wildlife on a daily basis.

(Hardback)

More than a recipe book, more than a foraging book, more than a medicinal herbal. Authors of best-seller Hedgerow Medicine share 90 exciting recipes featuring weeds, and showcasing why they are delicious, nutritious, medicinal, too good to waste and free! Cakes, soups, fritters, currys, drinks from nettles, dandelions, ground ivy, hogweed

(Hardback)

After the success of Venison, The Game Larder, here is chef Souto and genius photographer Steve Lees take on modern international recipes for all feathered game: from plucking and butchering to cooking. How to debone, butterfly, crown, truss, fillet and stuff. Pheasant, wild fowl, pigeon, duck etc with top guest chefs from around the world.

(Hardback)

Clear, well-illustrated guidebook showing, step-by-step, how to execute all the casts you will ever need: basic Overhead cast to doublehanded Spey cast, simple Roll cast to flamboyant Snake cast, and more.Useful tips on: which cast to use and when, improving your casting techniques, correcting bad habits, best casting rods, reels and flylines.

(Hardback)

The Hammer gun is a relatively primitive, totally hand-built, unique, supremely elegant and satisfying work of art; but it also has some genuine advantages over all the expensive modern guns used today. They remain, according to the author, the best guns ever made - and today they are still in many ways better than anything else available.

(Hardback)

Farm dogs and family dogs move seamlessly throughout Colin Whittemores life and no one understands the give-and-take between humans and canines better than him. Shepherding, ratting, ferreting, herding, guarding, child-minding, comforting and bonding dogs have done all this and more for him.

(Hardback)

Laurence Catlow is considered one of the finest classical flyfishing writers of our times and here he explores the themes close to an anglers heart: early and late season fishing; mayflies; lost fish; fishing in Wales; in Scotland; on home waters; what fishing really means to an angler.

(Hardback)

Barry Ord Clarke, International Fly Tyer of the Year, is back with 28 of his latest flytying techniques, all beautifully illustrated with step-by-step instructions and matching QR code-linked videos for each pattern. Flytying fans all round the world love his dual offering of print and video, best of both worlds for mastering the latest flies.

(Hardback)

The first fly tying book for fisherman with a linked video of the author expertly tying each of the 28 flies featured. Ord-Clarke also answers readers tying questions on-line.

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

Lively account of the natural history of the hare, covering its behaviour, its courtship and breeding, its favoured habitats and worldwide distribution, its remarkable survival techniques, its predators and its hunters. Includes230 stunning colour photographs and pictures of hare behaviour never caught on camera before.

(Hardback)

Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson was a master apothecary. His Theatrum Botanicum, published in 1640, ran to 1,788 large pages. In this editors selection, the authors have printed Parkinsons lively description of each plants vertues or healing properties, adding their own modern commentary on his almost-forgotten herbal recipes.

(Hardback)

30 shooting stories in pursuit of pheasant, mallard, geese, hares, mink, even an old wild goat, these modern tales involve bilingual dogs, an ignominious goose, red-letter days and disappointments, days on boglands, grouse moors, smart shoots, estuaries. Punt gunning, rough shooting and wildfowling and assorted brushes with ecstacy and near-death.

(Hardback)

Polo, horse-racing, show jumping, endurance riding, ploughing, pit ponies, mounted police, carriage driving, seaside donkeys all these different activities require different tack. Paula Sells shows how tack reflects Mans social history over 300 years of working with horses. Lavishly illustrated look behind the scenes.

(Hardback)

A celebrated countryside classic by sportsman and naturalist Ian Niall, with CF Tunnicliffes matchless illustrations. They have delighted a new generation of country lovers with these recollections of a lifetimes shooting, fishing and observing the endless fascinating nuances of nature.

(Paperback)

Decades of abject failure to strike a golf ball properly undoubtedly fuelled Mortimer Merriweathers frustration and led to him venting his ire on hapless individuals, companies and organisations connected with the game of golf in this hilarious book of his 100 letters.

(Hardback)

From the authors of the best-selling Hedgerow Medicine, this new book is packed with practical information on how to use 50 forgotten native plants to cure all sorts of common ailments. Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs throughout.

(Hardback)

How to take the best photos of the worlds most iconic animals: tigers, elephants, orca, polar bears, jaguars and more. Optimal seasons, best tour companies, how to position yourself, tips and exciting first-hand accounts from expert photographer Barrett.

(Hardback)

To mark the 150th anniversary of A.E. Housmans birth, we are publishing (in March 2009) a beautiful, full colour photographic edition of A Shropshire Lad.

(Hardback)

The average kitchen contains many handy but over-looked remedies for treating common ailments or household emergencies. These include herbs and spices, oils and vinegars, fruits and vegetables. This beautiful reference book making diagnosis and cure both immediate and easy. Written by the authors of the successfulHedgerow Medicine.

(Hardback)

A man-eating tiger has stalked and killed 460 villagers across northern India, spreading fear and heartbreak when Jim Corbett is asked to track and shoot it. Ten classic thrilling and moving true stalking accounts by Corbett show his love of India, its poor people and its wildlife. 4 million copies sold worldwide when previously published.