Little Toller Books
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal. Based in West Dorset www.littletoller.co.uk Instagram / @littletollerbooks
See my new essay about the natural world and human appropriation in Little Toller's online journal 'The Clearing'. #naturewriting #thepersonalessay #humansinnature @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @theclearing.bsky.social www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...
Trophies by Graham Mort
A new essay for The Clearing in which Graham Mort considers our appropriation of wildlife for entertainment.
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"I recalled now the boyhood thrill of climbing the ladder and peering through the window into the abysmal depth of the bull's eyes." Highly recommended. Especially if you like Alan Garner, elegiac social history or the East Midlands. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Happy to have helped crowdfund this and even happier to receive my copy through the post today. Well done to Jennifer Potter and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for shining a light on the overlooked story of Kurt Schwitters life and work in The Lake District👍 Preparing to dive in….
Lovely post by Nick Manns, on seeing landscape & settlements with fresh eyes after reading Hoskins' classic. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/06/gues... @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Guest review by Nick Manns: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE by W G Hoskins
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Vanessa Wright reviews Future Rural, a compilation of essays and poetry marking 100 years of @cprecountryside.bsky.social, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Monday exciting #eveningread Jade Cuttle’s ‘To Speak the Language of Soil’ is so interesting esp the list of ‘Mossary’ The new book Future Rural, edited by Adrian Cooper @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is great!
Out this week! #FutureRural is a wide & diverse collection of voices on the rural for @littletollerbooks.bsky.social & the centenary of @cprecountryside.bsky.social. Thrilled to be among those voices.
Fantastic launch for @cprecountryside.bsky.social & @littletollerbooks.bsky.social’s anthology Future Rural @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Marylebone. Many gathered voices from diverse angles, addressing the past, present, & reimagining the future of the countryside for CPREs centenary. Fun was had!
I look forward to reading this new monograph from the always excellent @littletollerbooks.bsky.social about one of my favorite birds. (I hold out hope that someday my own osprey manuscript might be a book, too.)
Osprey by John Lister-Kaye
In this new book the writer John Lister-Kaye reflects on the lives of ospreys which nest at his home on the Scottish Highlands, and the wildlife which surrounds them.
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This looks breathtaking: Osprey by John Lister-Kaye will be published on 27th May by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social.
Lovely review of our anthology Future Rural which is out next week. Thanks so much Shafik. @cprecountryside.bsky.social
Shafik Meghji@shafikmeghji.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn the new issue of @geographical.co.uk, I review #FutureRural, a thought-provoking anthology from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social on the future of the British countryside.
How wonderful to hear that you are reading @wildtwin.bsky.social’s Ghost Town. It’s an exquisite book.
Anneliese Midgley MP@anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social · 7mo ago🧵2026 is the National Year of Reading. I've loved books since before I could read. I remember my parents reading me stories at bedtime, especially Rocky & Bullwinkle, which I asked them to read over & over again.
Mad Shepherds. Just sayin'.
Nicola Chester@nicolawriting.bsky.social · 8mo agoLatest missive from the lovely people @littletollerbooks.bsky.social distracting me in my inbox… look! Mad Shepherds by L.P.Jacks (rural misfits & their pastoral mysticism) introduced by Mackenzie Crook! And #FutureRural, which is also going to be ace. What treats for this 43rd day of rain!
Das Buch ist von @littletollerbooks.bsky.social wiederveröffentlicht worden: Mit einem neuen Vorwort von Luke Turner, der schon einiges über Queer sein auf dem Lande in England geschrieben hat. www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Set My Hand Upon The Plough by E. M. Barraud - Little Toller Books
Set My Hand Upon the Plough is the recently rediscovered memoir of E M Barraud's war years, working the fields and writing frankly about her life.
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Today is Ghost Town’s 6th birthday. The children on the cover are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom in the early 1900’s. This book changed my life as did my wonderful publisher @littletollerbooks.bsky.social More about the book here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
I'm editing a book, part memoir, part art history, about the German artist Kurt Schwitters' last years in the English Lake District, and it's FANTASTIC. Not read anything like this in years and cannot wait until @littletollerbooks.bsky.social publishes it later this spring. More soon.
Great stuff. Thought you might like to know about this book, out in the UK this autumn from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social. guardianbookshop.com/the-book-of-...
The Book of Bogs
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My 14 year old son Luca took me here after cricket training today. He said there is hope in that sky Mum, I’ve never seen anything like it, the locals said there are half a million starlings here. Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!
I’ve just finished reading ‘Wild Twin’ by Jeff Young, published by those wonderful people at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social - a powerful, lyrical and creative masterpiece.
🎄⭐ Little Toller’s 12 Books for Christmas🎄⭐ Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2025 @horatioclare.bsky.social's We Came by Sea is a testament to hope, humanity, & the quieter goodness within a nation often defined by its divisions. It's Horatio at his best. Available in Paperback #BookSky
Our excellent friends @foldedorset.bsky.social in Shaftesbury have a lovely new expanded shop. There's even a shelf of our Nature Classics. Plus celebratory postbox topper outside.
We Came By Sea written by @horatioclare.bsky.social dares us to look beyond the headlines and meet the truth. Hands down Book of the Year and would make a great Xmas gift if hopes your bag! Kindness Better. #WeCameBySea
Massive congratulations to George Harrison, whose debut novel Season is shortlisted today for the #nerobookawards. It’s a warm, gentle tale about fandom and unlikely friendship in the stands of a Premier League football stadium. We’re overjoyed that it’s getting this recognition
Can I also just point out there are two small indie publishers shortlisted amongst the big names with their big authors, us and @eyebooks.bsky.social
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 11mo agoDamian Barr’s The Two Roberts (Canongate), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards 👇 #BookSky
