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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don’t do much social media these days… but some images from the summer won’t hurt Hope you are all well

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Rosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Highly recommend @herdyshepherd.bsky.social 's delightful "Place of Tides." As a reader you are learning with the author all manner of things about history, waterfowl, Norway, eiderdown. You meet women maintaining an old tradition. The book has nature writing, lots of insight, human forgiveness

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Duncan Porter @misterduncan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

9/ English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social Such a profound book on ecology & our connection with nature from the unique perspective of modern farming. Clarkson's Farm this is not. The writing is sublime. I recommend this to everyone I know working & volunteering in ecology.

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Lou Lyz @magpiehound.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

26 books finished this year, which is not a bad score at all. Book of the Year has to be this one - The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social Honourable mentions go to The Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social and The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Any other year they would have won.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who has bought this book. Thrilled it has become a bestseller and found so much love. Take care folks.

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Caroline Lamont Smith @physicsbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this wide-ranging conversation is oh so good. Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is able with great, grounded eloquence to say it as it is. If You think #wendellberry is good - listen to this. Not sure about everything in Rajan’s concluding summary but generally good.

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Radical with Amol Rajan - Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks) - BBC Sounds

James Rebanks on how to build a secure, sustainable and healthy food system.

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan. 👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Read the reports: ➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications... ➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of the things people don’t realise is that only about 15% (at most) of food price paid at the till goes to the farmer in the most ‘advanced’ versions of this food system There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“92% of [UK] farmers think the greatest threat to the long-term growth of British farming is the government.” While farmers go bankrupt, “Food prices have risen by around 37% in the last five years.” Who is this serving? Without small farmers, we have no food, no nature & environment, no security.

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Duncan Porter @misterduncan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Just finished reading English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social An absolute must read for anyone managing land or involved in ecology in the UK. I was blown away by the honesty & pragmatism in this book. #booksky 1/3

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Neil Denny @littleatoms.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd.bsky.social) on his latest book The Place of Tides, out now in paperback from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here: shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

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Little Atoms 974 - James Rebanks' The Place of Tides | Little Atoms

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Maggie @baroquepearl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Another beautifully written book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. A great relief from all the trumpishness, and a joy to read.

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 24/09/2025

Finished... like all the best non-fiction, it's about so much more than its subject - it's made me think about legacy, loss and resilience and how individuals can make a difference to the world. A wonderful book... even though it put a little dust in my eye... Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social

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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 15/09/2025

The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social It's marvellous.

Cover of The Place of Tides by James Rebanks.

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augum.bsky.social @augum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Birthday on the boat this morning and very pleased with my present from Liz. @herdyshepherd.bsky.social

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This is a truly life-affirming book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social Read it and you’ll discover a remarkable culture, a remarkable place and most of all a remarkable person.

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The second of the short animations made by the amazing Gabriella Marsh for The Place of Tides, with excerpts read by the equally amazing (!) author, James Rebanks. @herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be with us at Stroud’s Sub Rooms on 18th September. Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

‘The island was waiting for us to leave… and now I was ready to go home again. Like Anna I had a place to care for, and it was time to go back and do that’ @herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be in Stroud next month. Thanks to Gabriella Marsh. Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.

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Shawn Donley @shawndonley.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I just finished the Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social James Rebanks. A beautiful read! I got a glimpse of the life of a “duck woman” and how remarkable people are just people.

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If we are to save the world, we have to start somewhere. Delighted to confirm that @herdyshepherd.bsky.social (James Rebanks), will be with us at Stroud Sub Rooms on Thursday 18th September. Information and booking here: thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/jam...

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The final animation for The Place of Tides. Thanks everyone for making my little book a bestseller.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The final animation for The Place of Tides. Thanks everyone for making my little book a bestseller.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thank you I had to stay away from them so I wasn’t influenced But I intend to read them soon

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Norbert Kraas @reklamekasper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

“The rain beat on the windows and the wind howled, and eventually we settled further into our places in the scrufly old living room and began to talk.” This book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is as precious as eiderdown has been in those days. Thank you, James Rebanks!

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 08/07/2025

NEW We asked James Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd and celebrated author, to recommend five books that deserve to be labeled as 'modern classics' fivebooks.com/best-books/m... @herdyshepherd.bsky.social

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Modern Classics

Five of the best 'modern classic' books, as recommended by the Lake District shepherd and bestselling author James Rebanks

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Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

'A stone-cold classic. I don't understand why everyone hasn't read this' #TheIronAge by Arja Kajermo was featured on BBCR4 live from Hay festival and this is a *gorgeous* listen! (Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social ) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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A Good Read - James Rebanks and Kiri Pritchard-McLean at the Hay Festival - BBC Sounds

We're at the Hay Festival talking books we love.

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Just finished The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. It's a remarkable book. Deeply beautiful, sparse and timeless. Reminds me of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Definitely recommend.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My new book The Place of Tides is now available as a paperback in the U.K., and a hardback in the US

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Big wood pasture creation project we are working on with a brilliant landowner Mixture of regen grazing and habitat restoration

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Richard Bulmer @richardbulmer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

As a perfect companion to my spring effort to climb all the Wainwrights I’ve been reading English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social It’s such an inspiring analysis and manifesto for the beautiful Lake District landscape and beyond.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So proud of this US edition of The Place of Tides - comes out soon…

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Skye Balou @skyebalou.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just finished reading this amazing book, I should have read 5 years ago: English Pastoral, by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social This paragraph, particularly, says an awful lot about where we are and what is valuable in life.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Looking forward to talking to Rebecca Solnit at Hay Festival

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jacquikruz.bsky.social @jacquikruz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Today was the first time I ever saw eider ducks. They are in Portsoy. The males stood out - I had to google them, and was immensely excited to find they were eiders. I went back to photograph them, as a couple and another woman were too. I told them about your amazing book. I do hope they read it.

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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Heading to Montana in June… if you need me somewhere else in the states this summer for an event DM me, it might be possible This is published in the states in June

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