Landscapism

The arresting cover of  Ben Myers ' sixth novel is a statement of intent for the work inside: historical fiction with danger and har...

Catch Me Daddy is the rough-edged but searingly memorable debut feature film from music video director Daniel Wolfe, name-checked in Ro...

No end of year list this. Just a short recommendation of a short, stark and arresting novel: a bleak midwinter read. The Dig is Cy...

"The wood ended at a hawthorn hedge lining one side of a cart track. Across the track and beyond an orchard stood the Monastery Fa...

The current popular narrative on libraries is generally pretty negative: under threat, marginalised in the digital age etc. How refres...

A common leitmotif of writings and commentary on landscapes - both urban and rural - is that wildness, and nature it self, is on the ret...

I've just finished reading God's Own Country , the 2008 debut novel of Ross Raisin. And its compact 210 pages were 'gradely'...

View of Oldfield in the Worth Valley This is the latest in a regular-occasional series of posts on specific landscapes that mean a lo...

Ernest Howard : 'A typical dry valley in the Yorkshire Wolds, in this case Horse Dale – it’s just waiting for David Hockney to set u...

Field barns in Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale is one of the most visited places in the Yorkshire Dales; on a su...