Category: Memoir
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10th Sept 2024 – God Is An Octopus by Ben Goldsmith
Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris’s death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw…
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9th May 2023 – I Bought A Mountain by Thomas Firbank
First published in 1940, this is a much-loved book of North Wales by a young man who buys 5,000 acres in Snowdonia. Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells the remarkable story of how 21-year-old Thomas Firbank decided on impulse to purchase a 2,400-acre hill farm in the rugged, inhospitable…
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