Woodston

One of Britain’s finest nature writers…Lewis-Stempel maps an intriguing journey through his ancestral farmland. * Radio Times *
Hardback Book of the Month: John Lewis-Stempel has … an eye for vivid detail who creates evocative images as he shares his knowledge and love of the countryside. * CHOICE magazine *
From a master of storytelling… Other writers have written about the history of agriculture … but this writer is the master, because his book is not just a scholarly treatise. It is about the history of agriculture, yes, but it is a personal account, written with a great love of the subject. It is the ‘biography’ of a farm and the English landscape, written through the eyes of a man who is a true wordsmith, knowledgeable on his subject and lover of the natural world. It is these enthusiasms which make it so readable … [Lewis-Stempel is] a writer who is without equal in his field. – David Hill * Western Morning News *

John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and ‘Britain’s finest living nature writer’. His books include the bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.

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