In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with his sketch pad and a route map of a journey first taken by Martin Martin in 1703. Haswell-Smith sets sail on a voyage that will take him to fifty-two different islands around the Scottish Coast, from Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde to St. Kilda, Fair Isle and Bass Rock.

Filled with natural history, local legend and landscapes and accompanied by the author's own distinctive sketches and watercolours An Island Odyssey is a delightful way to discover or rediscover the romance, beauty and inescapable magnetism of the Scottish Islands.

Author : Hamish Haswell-Smith

Edition : Canongate Books Ltd, Paperback, 175 pages

ISBN : 9781782111757

Published : 3rd April 2014

Weight: 791g
Dimensions: 260 x 246 x 14mm

The Light In the Dark is a wonderful ode to winter, both its light and dark times. Exploring the darkest season’s magic, myth, promise and hope, through Clare’s personal and intimate experiences of the season.

Why Novel North loves The Light In the Dark

“There’s a real warmth and mesmerising imagery to Clare’s writing. With sentences that conjure magically observed moments, I oftentimes found myself pausing to reread and relish. His journal is personal and intimate, blending winter tradition with the contrast of modern living in a way I suspect many of us will empathise with. The Light In the Dark has been a real treat and companion to curl up with this winter, and it’s one I can see myself returning to before spring appears.”

Author : Horatio Clare

Edition : Hardback, 208 pages

ISBN : 9781783964048

"'It's over there,' John said as he pointed across the sea. I looked but all I could see was fog. 'There,' he persisted, 'you can just make out the outline of the castle.'"

From the tiny island that shaped the entire English language, to the island that terrified Dylan Thomas, there's more to Britain's tiny islands than you might think! Have your own tiny adventure by visiting any of the 60 remarkable little islands around Britain featured here. Although Britain boasts hundreds of tiny islands, Dixe Wills has selected just the very best of them for this book. Found around the coast, in lakes, in lochs and on rivers, these little worlds are waiting for you to discover them - whether you swim to them, walk to them at low tide, row to them, or catch a dinky little ferry.

Author : Dixe Wills

Edition : AA Publishing, Paperback, 320 pages

ISBN : 9780749573874

Published : 1st May 2013

Weight: 640g
Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 25mm

"And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer,
as here translated:
I am the poem of earth..."
- Walt Whitman, The Voice of the Rain

An evocative meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.

Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed.

In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.

Blending these expeditions with reading, research, memory and imagination, she reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too.

Author : Melissa Harrison

Edition : Faber & Faber Paperback, 128 pages

ISBN : 9780571328949