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Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, they have attracted saints and sinners, and artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. She finds that their history of dispossession and migration played a part in the British imperial past. 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It was camouflaged against the stone and it was only because one eye blinked black and shiny that I picked it out. It’s not injured, just exhausted and cold at spending the night out of the nest. Back home in front of the stove it revived and this evening it is sitting up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e…’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll Around the Year\u003c\/i\u003e is the diary of Parsonage Farm in Iddelseigh, North Devon, where life is remote and has remained unchanged for centuries. This story of a family farm, with its daily hardships and rewards, is accompanied by the poems of Morpurgo’s friend and neighbour, Ted Hughes, whose own writing was inspired by his nearby farm. Alongside Morpurgo’s diary and Hughes’s poetry, the book is illustrated with the beautiful photographs of James Ravilious, who documented rural life in Devon for 17 years and worked closely with Clare and Michael Morpurgo to create the first edition.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally published in 1979, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll Around the Year\u003c\/i\u003e was life-changing for\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMorpurgo. It was his first book, and these early impressions of the English countryside grew into a deliberate undertaking that he describes as the best story of his life: the founding of Farms for City Children, a charity started with his wife Clare in 1976, that has since enabled over 100,000 city children to spend a week in the countryside, living and working on a farm.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith the support of Beaford Archive, the Ted Hughes Estate and the Ravilious family, this new edition by Little Toller is published to celebrate five decades of Farms for City Children and this remarkable artistic collaboration between Morpurgo, Hughes and Ravilious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘I love this book for so many reasons, because of so many people:because of Ted Hughes’s poems, because of the photographs by James Ravilious, because it’s about the place where Clare and I live, where our family grew up, and which helped me grow my stories, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWar Horse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrivate Peaceful\u003c\/em\u003e and many others, and because it’s a living story still being told everyday.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichael Morpurgo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e250 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e216 × 15 × 156 mm \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daughter of a Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40517133664342,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1202\/5752\/files\/B4EEE306-3A82-4086-8752-A024EC7667F0.jpg?v=1702982801"},{"product_id":"names-for-the-sea-by-sarah-moss","title":"Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAcclaimed novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children in 2010, the year the volcano erupted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss and her husband moved with their two small children to Iceland. From their makeshift home among the half-finished skyscrapers of Reykjavik, Moss travels to hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters, and the remote farms and fishing villages of the far north. She watches the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months go by, she and her family find new ways to live. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns meditative and wickedly observant, Sarah Moss's account of her time in Iceland is the adventure of a lifetime with the baggage of a lifetime too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eSarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. 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