Windswept

If you are a current subscriber to the quarterly your basket will update to show any discounts before the payment page during checkout ● If you want to subscribe now and buy books or goods at the member rate please add a subscription to your basket before adding other items

Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021.

Windswept takes an exhilarating journey from the author’s care-free childhood tramping the Welsh valleys to the remote journeys of extraordinary women who walked to find minds of their own and assert their independence – Frieda Lawrence, Gwen John, Nan Shepherd, Georgia O’Keeffe and Simone de Beauvoir among them.

‘An invigorating paean to the liberating power of rural rambles . . . unfailingly interesting and even revelatory.’ The Wall Street Journal

Rock, Root and Bird

Justin Marozzi on Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

The Living Mountain, thankfully, is a treasure that, rather like the Cairngorms it describes so wondrously, stands alone in space and time. Happening on it at any point in one’s reading life brings...