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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

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Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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...
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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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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"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
Water And Sky by Neil Sentance (2014).
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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just started on this! Chapeau @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
Cover of Looking For Mr Schwitters by Jennifer Potter
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C Spoon are we @clintspoon.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
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….
Looking for Mr Schwitters by Jennifer Potter
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@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
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Guest review by Nick Manns: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE by W G Hoskins
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British Wildlife @britishwildlife.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Vanessa Wright reviews Future Rural, a compilation of essays and poetry marking 100 years of @cprecountryside.bsky.social, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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!
Jade Cuttle’s ‘To Speak the Language of Soil’Lovely cover illustration by Holly Ovenden
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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.)
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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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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This looks breathtaking: Osprey by John Lister-Kaye will be published on 27th May by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social.
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Lovely review of our anthology Future Rural which is out next week. Thanks so much Shafik. @cprecountryside.bsky.social
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Great review of Future Rural, out next week!
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Anneliese Midgley MP @anneliesemidgleymp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This week I’m reading Ghost Town by Liverpool author Jeff Young. @wildtwin.bsky.social
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
How wonderful to hear that you are reading @wildtwin.bsky.social’s Ghost Town. It’s an exquisite book.
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Mad Shepherds. Just sayin'.
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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...
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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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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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...
Photo shows two copies of Ghost Town book, hardback and paperback. The cover is a black and white photograph of two small children in a doorway in the early 1900’s. The children are my grandmother Dorothy and her brother Tom
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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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.
A photograph of the artist Kurt Schwitters and friends, in the Lake District.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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-...
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The Book of Bogs
A better place to buy your books. Support independent journalism with everything you buy. Free UK P&P on online orders over £25
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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!
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Including my personal pick, from the great @kgeorgew.bsky.social
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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.
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🎄⭐ 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
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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.
A shelf of nature classics in the new Folde.The Book of Bogs on a table in the new Folde. Post box topper outside the new Folde. Book worm postbox topper outside the new Folde.
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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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
Scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh Beach Suffolk. Bright blue sky and sea left of it. Tears off camera.Cover of We Came By Sea by Horatio Clare. White cliffs and different blued seas around the books title and author name.
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Eye Books @eyebooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 20/11/2025
Damian 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
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Damian Barr, Ian McEwan and Lyse Doucet shortlisted for 2025 Nero Book Awards
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Good Morning! We’ve got wonderful news for you! Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist. The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order! @horatioclare.bsky.social #BookSky
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Finally got hold of a copy of Tribune’s winter edition with Adelle Stripe’s marvellous review of Wild Twin. @adellestripe.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social And this one of my favourite bits!
Sentence from Adelle Stripe’s review of Wild Twin in Tribune’s winter edition:  Though this exceptional memoir has roots in psychogeography, Wild Twin gracefully swerves the blokeish craft of academics wandering through landscapes having a big think.
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mistinguettecat.bsky.social @mistinguettecat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just the thing for a damp afternoon!!!
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Rimbaud of Maghull!! What an amazing review of Wild Twin. @jeffyoung.bsky.social #BookSky
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Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)… @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @wildtwin.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Sunday book review - The Book of Bogs by Anna Chilvers & @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Publisher: @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2025/10/19/s... Contributions from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @gregorynorminton.bsky.social #bogs #peat #wuthering
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Dug out two (old) watercolour paintings of two (very different) storms over the moors and blanket bogs of the Pennines. For interest... maybe to readers of The Book of Bogs and other peaty works. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @jensoilandpen.bsky.social
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
There’s a signed copy of Wild Twin in this year’s Children in Read auction. All proceeds are in aid of the Children in Need appeal. Lot 281, get your bids in! @childreninread.bsky.social @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
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Children in Read 2025
Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign, dedicate, and send their books to their successful bidders.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B.B.C. Children in Need A...
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well. Enjoy! #TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now #naturewriting #peatbogs
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A little autumn offer for this week! 15% off books bought on our website until 1st November. Use code LTB15G at the checkout. Maybe try Edward Thomas' Icknield Way, Caro Giles' Unschooled or Peter Hahn's memoir of life on a vineyard... www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
A photograph of a postcard with details of our autumn offer: 15% discount, using code LTB15G. Use this code at checkout before November 1st to redeem your offer. www.littletoller.co.uk
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring. Preorder www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
An image of The cover of The Icknield Way, showing Spencer Gore's painting of the same name.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Really proud to be in this book & this is a lovely review from @markavery.bsky.social. For the bogs & peatlands, & all the wet, wild, wuthering places, @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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Ian Bartlett @ianbartlett.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Another for the @littletollerbooks.bsky.social collection! 👍
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Monday #morningread from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social: The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands
From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.
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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 06/10/2025
Help @littletollerbooks.bsky.social produce Jennifer Potter's new book about Kurt Schwitters – 'not a biography, nor an art book, nor a memoir, but a book in its own class.' www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
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Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
And this beautiful anthology launches today. Congratulations to @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers and to all involved in this beautiful book! You can buy it here. #poetrysky #booksky#naturewriting www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
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The Book of Bogs
This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.
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Kizzia Mildmay @kizzia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My copy of The Book of Bogs - edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - has arrived from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social and look how lovely this important book looks! And it’s full of wonderful work from fantastic authors, too.
Front cover of The Book of Bogs, featuring the stunning artwork called Autumn Comes To Walshaw Dean by Angie Rogers. I am holding the book in my left hand and the nail varnish on my thumbnail, a russet brown colour, matches the colourway of the bog depicted.
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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jenny Potter is crowdfunding a new book about the artist Kurt Schwitters, but she explains it far better than I can in this video ⬇️. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social will be publishing. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...
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Looking for Mr Schwitters - a new book
To produce an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District.
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