- Published: 8 April 2021
- ISBN: 9781473558601
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Woodston
The Biography of An English Farm – The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Published: 8 April 2021
- ISBN: 9781473558601
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
Lewis-Stempel's greatest gift remains his prose, with all its vividness and energy. His aim in Woodston was to 'fashion a memorial in print' to his grandparents and 'all the yeomen farmers of England, past, present and future'. The English countryside is 'a work of human art, done by the many and the nameless' and he wanted to celebrate it. He has succeeded admirably
Daily Mail
Lewis-Stempel is one of our finest nature writers ... He writes with delicate observation and authority, giving us in Woodston a book teeming with fascinating details, anecdotes and penetrating insights into the real cost of our denatured countryside.
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
From a master of storytelling... Other writers have written about the history of agriculture ... but this writer is the master, because his book is not just a scholarly treatise. It is about the history of agriculture, yes, but it is a personal account, written with a great love of the subject. It is the 'biography' of a farm and the English landscape, written through the eyes of a man who is a true wordsmith, knowledgeable on his subject and lover of the natural world. It is these enthusiasms which make it so readable ... [Lewis-Stempel is] a writer who is without equal in his field.
David Hill, Western Morning News
Hardback Book of the Month: John Lewis-Stempel has ... an eye for vivid detail who creates evocative images as he shares his knowledge and love of the countryside.
CHOICE magazine
One of Britain's finest nature writers...Lewis-Stempel maps an intriguing journey through his ancestral farmland.
Radio Times