We often picture reading as an indoor activity, but this doesn’t mean we have to feel cut-off from the outside world when we are engrossed in our reading: there are plenty of books written specifically to keep us feeling connected to the world outside our windows, divided chronologically, by month or by season, guiding us through the year with every page.

In his recently published The Accidental Garden, Richard Mabey focuses his wild perspective on a surprising topic: the domestic garden.

The evenings are drawing-in, and the lure of an armchair and a good book becomes hard to resist... Here are three great reads for autumn.

We set ourselves five rural reads, and I soon fell in love with those books about the people who have lived and farmed here in Suffolk.

Today, the idea of the countryside being "an escape" seems very modern, but The Fat of the Land proves this urge is as old as the hills...

Adrian Bell’s trilogy, beginning with Corduroy (1930), creates a world of quiet beauty that I'll carry with me for the rest of my life.

The second of our 5 rural reads: Isabella Tree's fascinating and enthusiastic account of rewilding a 3,500 acre farm in Sussex.

The first of our 5 rural reads: Robert MacFarlane's observative acrostic poems combined with Jackie Morris's characterful illustrations.