Author: Richard Carter

by Robert Macfarlane A celebration of landscape writers and words. Landmarks is really two books in one: a series of essays about nature writers who have influenced Robert Macfarlane, and a proto-dictionary of mainly old, mainly British words used to describe features in the landscape. As someone who reads an awful lot of ‘nature writing’… Continue reading Landmarks

by Clare Leighton A beautifully illustrated year in a garden. I'm a big fan of the publisher Little Toller's Nature Classics Library, in which they re-print classic nature writing in a lovely modern format. They really are a joy to handle as well as read. Four Hedges describes a year in the 1930s in the… Continue reading Four Hedges

by Adam Thorpe Monograph about an enigmatic hill. A pet gripe of mine is the appalling production quality of most British hardback books, printed on little better than yellowing blotting paper. I have no complaints on that front about this book. In fact, its beautiful production was one of the reasons I bought it. On… Continue reading On Silbury Hill

by Helen Macdonald Multi-prize-winning goshawk memoir. When Helen Macdonald's father died unexpectedly, she was utterly devastated. The strange, very personal way she chose to try to deal with her grief was to train a young goshawk. The idea wasn't as random as it sounds: Macdonald has been obsessed with falconry since she was a small… Continue reading H is for Hawk