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Book of the Month: February

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2025/02/21

Newly published by White Rabbit Books, Adelle Stripe’s memoir ‘Base Notes’ evokes the author’s life through scent. Read an extract from the ‘Old Spice’ chapter below. OLD SPICE Shulton Company The rugged surfer. Chisel-chinned. Carmina Burana. Wild water rapids. Riding the waves of a thirty-foot breaker. He will become himself. He will find success . […]

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New in the Shop

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2025/02/20

We’ve just taken delivery of two new titles from the lovely Ancient Magic Books — an independent publisher established in Cornwall in 2020. The collection of short stories that comprise West are an invitation to step into the world of spirited local surf scene in West Cornwall. Above all, they encompass Pete Geall’s passion and […]

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What Bird is That? — Woodpeckers

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2025/02/18

As the sound of woodpecker drumming fills canopies up and down the country, Will Rose releases the latest of his fantastic What Bird is That? videos, this time teaching you to distinguish between Green, Great Spotted and Lesser Spotted woodpeckers. Learn how woodpeckers use not just their powerful bills, but their extremely long tongues to find […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2025/02/16

Winter winds blow gulls and otters to Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley’s highland crofts. Dear Annie, I had thought to write to you about the shore, about the single curlew glimpsed from the car window, the slow gather and spread of seaweed to fertilise the desert-like hydrophobic soil of the polytunnel, but it would only be […]

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Between Worlds

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2025/02/15

Through a new exhibition at Tate St Ives, Lally MacBeth enters the magic-infused world of the artist, writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun — where plant, human, mineral and animal coalesce. Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove, 1946, Private Collection © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans ‘Even a bicycle is a hindrance to such communion of […]

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STILL OUT: Ambient Road Trip

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2025/02/14

Touching on friendship, place and the passing of time, STILL OUT is an audio-visual collaboration between music producers Will Cookson and Tom Haverly and filmmaker Rufus Exton. Non-narrative in form yet resonant with embedded meanings, it evokes a road trip from North Yorkshire to North Devon they took together in the summer of 2024, featuring […]

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Competition Results

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2025/02/13

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Helen Gordon’s The Meteorites: Encounters With Outer Space & Deep Time to give away, courtesy of Profile Books. We asked: In which country was the The Campo del Cielo (Field of the Sky) meteorite discovered? And the answer is: […]

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The Ocean Will Have Us All

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2025/02/13

Photographer William Arnold has just released The Ocean Will Have Us All, the final instalment in his Retinette Series. An experiment in self-publishing, The Retinette Series spans 12 rolls of film, shot on a 1950s Kodak Retinette camera over 12 months, resulting in 12 zines, and a total of 168 photographs. Standalone copies are available […]

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Back in stock in the shop

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2025/02/12

Mrs Bun’s Allotment Diary and The Culinary Capers of Felix & Pi — a cast back to the allotment-tending, catering-business-running days of musician, gardener, and Andrew Weatherall DJ-producer partner Nina Walsh. The book is drawn from the Mrs. Bun’s Allotment Watch column that Nina wrote for Caught by the River column from 2011-12. Buy your […]

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Rectory Lane Cemetery

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2025/02/09

A poem by Nicola Healey. * Note: Between 2017 and 2020, the Rectory Lane Cemetery Project, launched by the Friends of St Peter’s, Berkhamsted, transformed this graveyard from ‘a dead space to a living place’. Nicola Healey’s first poetry pamphlet, ‘A Newer Wilderness’, was published by Dare-Gale Press in April 2024 and won the Michael […]

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Rough Magic Writing Workshops 2025

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2025/02/08

Join our friends Rough Trade Books and Real Magic Books in Wendover, Buckinghamshire (less than an hour’s journey from London) for a series of day-long writing workshops with counter-cultural panache. Each of the four ‘Rough Magic Days’ over the course of 2025 will provide the opportunity to spend time with a different RTB author — […]

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On Meteorites

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2025/02/07

As her book ‘The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space & Deep Time’ is published by Profile Books, Helen Gordon shares her fascination with these ancient, extra-terrestrial rocks. It was one of the largest meteorites I’d seen: 635-kilogrammes of iron nickel backed up against a pillar in the museum as though no one knew quite what […]

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Belongings

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2025/02/06

In a text originally written to accompany a recent exhibition of Siobhan McLaughlin’s works at Hweg gallery, Penzance, Martin Holman steps into the artist’s non-traditional landscape paintings. “If you aestheticise too much,” says Siobhan McLaughlin, “you risk ignoring landscapes for their ecological, social and labour values.” While toil is not the main subject of this […]

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Back in stock

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2025/02/05

It’s back! After many, many enquiries, we’re very pleased to say that the good folks of Black Lodge Press have printed a new run of A Radical Garden — a lush risograph zine which collects posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing. The zines are £10 a pop and available in our […]

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Wild Signs

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2025/02/05

As she walks by the River Don, Coco Lone Neal ponders symbols left on the ground and carved into trees. Skirting around a private sign, into the snow-topped forest beyond, my walking companion explains he has been coming here for over twenty years. Nobody, “except perhaps the landowners”, he admits, knows this area better than […]

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On The Life Cycle Of The European Eel

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2025/02/04

The gaps in our knowledge about eels are fertile places for art and ideas to grow, writes Peter Rogers, as he releases a new eel-inspired EP. Aristotle believed they emerged from mud through a kind of spontaneous magic. Pliny the Elder thought they rubbed against rocks and their dead skin came to life. Others were […]

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SCATTERING

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2025/02/01

Tim Dee on scattering his dad far and wide — and the radio programme he made along the way. To infinity and beyond! Some rockets, an urn, sticky backed plastic, and some of the ash of John Dee. Minehead 2021 Many people get it over in one dump. Some people never get around to it. […]

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A Curiosity of Uncertainty

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2025/02/01

Carl Bigmore‘s A Curiosity of Uncertainty is a photobook and album inspired by, and made in, the Torridon Hills of the Scottish Highlands. Carl writes: The images and music explore the engulfing nature of the various mountain ranges in the area and their hallucinatory effect. As the tumultuous winter weather ceaselessly shifts, exploring these places can […]

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Caught by the Reaper: Geoff Nicholson

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2025/01/31

Travis Elborough remembers Geoff Nicholson — writer, walker, gourmand, theremin player and friend — who died earlier this month, aged 71. Geoff Nicholson, photographed by Travis Elborough My friend, the writer, walker, gourmand, Acid Mothers Temple fan and mean theremin player, Geoff Nicholson had been living with illness for a while, having been diagnosed with […]

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Unfurling: January

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2025/01/30

In a new monthly column, Pip Squire explores the myth, magic and allure of the oft-overlooked fern. Most fern species are dormant at this time of year, hidden within the earth — just little crowns of hair, waiting for their time — and others, hardy and stalwart, carry on through. But even those that have […]

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