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2025/09/26

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of David E. Vaughan’s The Secret Life of Corals to give away, courtesy of J. Ross Publishing. We asked: What is the name of the largest reef system on Earth? And the answer is: the Great Barrier Reef. The winners […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: September

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2025/09/25

Nicola Chester’s ‘Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women’s Journeys through Time, Land and Community’ — our September Book of the Month — is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people, writes Melissa Harrison. In the years during and after the Second World War the dauntless Miss Julia Maud White, a near-novice where […]

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New and improved Caught by the River subscriptions

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2025/09/25

Announcing an overhaul of our paid Steady memberships. For the past few months, we have been quietly making plans to revive and renew our paid subscription offering, and we’re very pleased to share that big changes are just around the corner. Despite the consideration, consultation and work which went into our initial subscription launch four […]

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Now Playing

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2025/09/24

‘Delphinium Bliss’ by Cassandra Jenkins. My Light, My Massage Parlor by Cassandra Jenkins Taken from the album My Light, My Massage Parlor, out now on Dead Oceans.

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Folklore Tapes present: The Watchers

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2025/09/21

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film The Watchers. Shot on the moors above Todmorden on 16mm black-and-white film by students of the Royal College of Art, and running at just 26 minutes, the film weaves together themes and stylistic elements that […]

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Between Dusk and Dawn

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2025/09/20

As froglike jolts signal big life changes, Lucy Underwood considers her proximity to the natural world. My eyes dart to the silhouette of a bat that cuts across the sky. A brief encounter like a short, sharp spark of a lighter. You can never be too sure if you saw it or if it was […]

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Competition Results

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2025/09/19

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Vanessa Taylor’s Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History to give away. We asked: Which Roman river god was an embodiment of the River Tiber? And the answer is: Tiberinus. The winners are Fraser Sutherland, Mark […]

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Take Our Chances

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2025/09/18

Ahead of their upcoming UK tour, Modern Nature today share a short film titled Take Our Chances about the making of their hugely acclaimed new album The Heat Warps (released last month on Bella Union). Filmed on location in English countrysides, cityscapes and rehearsal rooms in November 2024, the absorbing 20 minute film was made by […]

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The Bedroom Carpet Farm

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2025/09/17

Book of the Month is Nicola Chester’s ‘Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women’s Journeys Through Time, Land and Community’ — which draws a connection between two women in two different eras who both wanted to become farmers. Read an extract from the preface, titled ‘The Bedroom Carpet Farm’, below. Printed with kind permission of the […]

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Up the Youth Club

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2025/09/16

We should all be deeply grateful for Emma Warren’s timely cultural history of the youth club, writes social historian and former youth worker Ken Worpole. Emma Warren’s study in contemporary British culture starts with a simple question: ‘Where have all our youth clubs gone?’ Once a feature of everyday life – whether provided by a […]

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Graveyard

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2025/09/14

From a churchyard bench, Lena Stahl surveys a million years of north Norfolk life. I treat the graveyard like my extended living room. I don’t know if that is morbid or disrespectful or really not that big of a deal. The main reason is a very practical one: It features the nearest bench for miles […]

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THE 25 COMEBACK SPECIAL

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2025/09/13

Bill Drummond gives insight into his year managing The Ghost of Elvis. The 25 Comeback Special was, is and will always be a celebration of The Ghost of Elvis’s residency in The Curfew Tower for the year of 2024. As in the year when The Curfew Tower became Graceland in The Glens. But first… A […]

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Competition Results

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2025/09/11

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Nicola Garrard’s On The Edge: Sea, Surf and impossible Dreams to give away, courtesy of Old Barn Books. We asked: One of South Devon’s best known surfing beaches, Bantham Beach is situated at the mouth of which river? And […]

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Loss and Abundance

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2025/09/11

In an extract from Vol. 1 of Little Toller, Assemble and Common Ground’s ‘Common Treasures’ series, Megan Willoughby shares insights from her off-grid woodland community in Somerset. It is 9 pm and I’m in bed. My cat, Benji, is curled into the backs of my knees to avoid the autumn wind, which cuts through the […]

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Now Playing

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2025/09/10

‘Starling Descends’ by Flaer. Taken from the first full-length album Translations, out this Friday on ODDA. Translations by Flaer A record that embraces transition and movement, Translations reflects of the process of laying new foundations in Cornwall. The record is coloured with found sounds and field recordings, from the starlings which can be heard singing […]

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Yellowing the Orchard

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2025/09/07

As English apple season arrives, Ysella Sims writes on the arts of picking, harmonious growing, and eating. You might not think so, but there’s an art to picking an apple. Half a century ago my Grandmother taught it to me; first you must gently lift the weight of the fruit in your hand, then turn […]

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We Came By Sea

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2025/09/06

As the news becomes more strident and fearful, Horatio Clare’s ‘We Came By Sea’ tells migrants’ stories with humanity, writes Sue Brooks. In the winter of 2022, against the background of what is being described as a “migrant crisis”, Horatio Clare sets out on a three-year journey to see for himself what was happening on […]

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New in the shop

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2025/09/05

Just in time for Bandcamp Friday, we’ve added a handful of lovely new books to the shop from Ancient Magic Books in Cornwall — perhaps our favourite independent publishing house working in the UK at the moment. Brand new to the shop are copies of Ancestor Houses, documenting Hugo Winder-Lind’s construction of small chambers in […]

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Competition Results

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2025/09/04

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Robert Winder’s Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe to give away, courtesy of Elliott & Thompson. We asked: How many countries does the Rhine flow through? And the answer is: six. The winners are Martin Wells, Jon Booton […]

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Loomeweight

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2025/09/04

A year-long performance piece by Patricia Auchterlonie and Hestor Dart comprising the construction of an iron age-style warp-weighted loom, the weaving of foraged materials and the singing of wordless, improvised vocalisations, ‘Loomeweight’ is the detritus of our late-stage capitalist world woven into the long past, writes Jenny Vuglar. Photos: Geir Engene The weight of time, […]

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