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LOOKING FOR MR SCHWITTERS

Jennifer Potter's Looking for Mr Schwitters shines a light on a pivotal artist's final years in the Lake District. Drawing on memory and personal connections, Potter turned Schwitters into one of the foundational myths of her life as a writer. Not a biography, nor an art book, nor a memoir — but rigorously researched and written for the general reader, it reclaims Schwitters' rightful place in the history of modern art.

by Jennifer Potter

Published June 2026

FUTURE RURAL

Future Rural is a new anthology of writing which gathers together a chorus of voices — writers, farmers, activists, ecologists and thinkers – and asks them to interrogate the past and present in order to imagine what lies ahead for Britain’s rural landscapes and communities. Celebrating 100 years of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

Imagining Tomorrow's Countryside

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by Horatio Clare

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We Came By Sea

‘It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare's skill turn attention to this topic, and he does not avoid referencing corruption and other wrongdoing by those in power’

Stories of a greater Britian

Sally Hayden, Irish Times

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Jack Cornish

by Edward Thomas

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The Icknield Way

‘It is impossible to understand a whole path – we experience it only now, a single point in shifting time. Paths are nothing less than a sustained, continual process of collective creation; Thomas’ own footsteps have become a part of this making and remaking, and his book is our best guide.’

by Caro Giles

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Unschooled

‘She writes of the everyday world of mothering... with such unassuming, humble, raw, grace.’

The story of a family that doesn’ t fit in

Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

by Ken Worpole

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Brightening from the East

‘One of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape.’

‘One work of nonfiction I have most enjoyed this year.’

D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement (Books of the Year)

Essays on landscape and memory

Alice Vincent

by Kim Taplin

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The English Path

‘The Wild Garden is a hopeful and practical book for today as much as it is a fascinating insight into how our gardens - and attitudes to them - have changed.’

by Jan Morris

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A Venetian Bestiary

A Venetian Bestiary is both a tribute to Venice and a meditation on the relationship between its human inhabitants and the animals that share their world, offering readers a fresh and poetic perspective on one of the world’s most iconic cities.

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