Hidden valleyPaul Richardson fled the conventions of his bourgeois upbringing to become a peasant farmer in a village on the edge of Europe. Immersing himself in the rural culture of his remote Spanish community, he learned the traditional arts of animal husbandry and vegetable growing, wine making and home distilling, and made bread from the rye he sowed on the stone walled terraces of his 12 acre farm. In prose that shimmers with sensuality and wit, he charts

So this is a book about the distance

And the last thing I wanted was my heart to be torn

' books are packaged here into a handy travel-sized edition

and Wordsworth

A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation of Wales from poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in which outsiders

the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside

teamwork and how to invest in people

to questions big and small

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late

GillWill She Do

His successors followed the same policy during the Scottish wars and the Hundred Years War

the Icelandic bookseller-holidaymaker vacationing in the Bookshop