 | Real England: The Battle Against the Bland by Paul Kingsnorth
Buy new: £9.94 / Used from: £2.33 Part travel, part polemic. Part history, part environment. Part England lost, part England found. A necessary book A book to read and discuss. Kingsnorth is going places and this is a key work.
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 | Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
Buy used from: £19.75 Where is England without trees? This personal journey takes us on a worldwide tour of woods, trees and the people who live by them and love them.
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 | Portrait Of Elmbury (The Brensham Trilogy) by John Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 John Moore at his best. Rose tinted glasses reveal rural life in England between the wars. Perhaps England was like this. Certainly it should be like this. Moore deserves wider reading even today.
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 | The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.99 Nostalgia for England gone and going. Its a recurrent theme for more than a century. Ray Davis captures the quintessence of nostalgia on this album. It is still a great listen forty years on.
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 | The Last Food of England by Marwood Yeatman
Buy new: £16.22 / Used from: £10.00 Where would England be without its food? A good food book should make you hungry. This makes me salivate before I have turned a page. Lets hear it for real English food!
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