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1.		Return to Akenfield from Granta Books Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I haven't read the original Akenfield that this book is based on but I definitely will now. I really enjoyed this book's insights into rural English life, and how thing have changed between the original book and this re-visiting. Its descriptions of country living, recounted through the eyes of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: £3.99 Customer Review: Fans of the BBC adaptation should give this a wide berth if they are expecting witty tales of honest farm folks told in the style of Catherine Cookson. For example, the Pratt Sisters whose ludicrous antics and matching outfits took up so much of the BBC series, have little more than one page in the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Heatherley: The Lost Sequel to "Lark Rise to Candleford" from John Owen Smith Price: £7.49 Customer Review: Concentrating on Flora Thompsons time as a post office assistant in Grayshott, Hampshire. Heatherley continues in the same beautifully written vein as the more well known Lark Rise to Candleford stories. I finished this book in a day or so and found I just couldn't put it down. Like Lark Rise, this... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees from Penguin Price: £6.99 Customer Review: This is one of those books you can just dip in and out of every time you're feeling a little stressed with urban life. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of the world of wood and trees. Deakin, a true English eccentric, owned woodlands in Suffolk and loved and nurtured them like his... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Wild Places from Granta Books Price: £9.01 Customer Review: An enormously evocative work. MacFarlane is a deeply sensitive writer, and manages to maintain a intense creative tension between wilderness and civilisation. If you are into the wilderness and outdoors, and have ever struggled to put into words what it is, and why you do it. Then this book is for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England from Ebury Press Price: £13.29 Customer Review: Although very different, 'The lost village' reminded me of two books: 'English Journey' by J.B. Priestley and 'Notes from a small island' by Bill Bryson. Like both books 'Villages' mourns the loss of typical British qualities, but it lacks the anger of both, and the wit of the latter. And so in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I'm only about a third of the way through this book but wanted to add to the reviews on the site. If, like me, you happen on this page by accident and think "why not?" please follow through with that first thought and buy this amazing book. It's so rare to find work that really cant be... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay from Faber and Faber Price: £9.09 Customer Review: I think it probably helps that I grew up in the same region as the subjects of this book, but I believe it has a general appeal. Like all oral historians, Evans seeks to learn what the reality of life was like 60-70 (or more) years ago by speaking to the old people about their memories. The coastal... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Crow Country from Jonathan Cape Ltd Price: £11.89 Customer Review: I echo what others have said about the quality of this book. It is indeed a good piece of writing and the only reservation I have - and it is somewhat tentative - is that there is perhaps too much about the writer and not enough about the crows and rooks. Put briefly, next time there could be more... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The Uncommon Reader from Profile Books Ltd Price: £3.86 Customer Review: A very humorous and entertaining story about the Queen and one of her servants revolving around the Queen's growing addiction to English literature. Although the situation is preposterous, Bennett has a way of drawing one into the story and it starts to seem plausible. Alan Bennett made... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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