Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

Summer: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By: Melissa Harrison

ISBN: 9781783962440
eBook ISBN: 9781783962457
Cover: Paperback
Published: May 19, 2016
Size: 198x129mm
Page Count: 224 pages

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Summer is a season of richness: gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance, and the sound of insects, filling the air. We feel the sand between our toes, or the grass beneath our feet. In these long, warm days, languid and sensual, we reconnect with the natural world, revelling in light and scent and colour once more.

Capturing the high point of the year’s progress, Summer presents prose and poetry spanning eight hundred years. Featuring new contributions by Simon Barnes, Michael McCarthy and Esther Woolfson, classic extracts from the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Webb and Philip Larkin, and diverse new nature writing from across the UK, this vibrant and evocative collection will inspire you to go out and enjoy the pleasures of summer.

The other titles in the series include Spring, Autumn and Winter – or there’s the entire box set.

  • A delightful miscellany of reflections on that loveliest of seasons, summer – packed with insights and encounters with nature from a wide range of authors from Gilbert White and George Eliot to a bevy of young contemporary naturalists


    - Stephen Moss, author of Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
  • A remarkable anthology of abundance capturing both the physical wonders and the psychological enchantments of this glorious season, this book conjures summer in the senses as potently as a field of freshly cut hay. Featuring some of the greatest writers on landscape as well as fantastic new voices, it is a collection that will trigger the memory, evoke new places and people, and help you see afresh the preciousness and precariousness of our natural world


    - Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground
  • This book will convince you that summertime is where we truly belong – not through overindulgence in nostalgia, but through realisation of our core values and roots. It will take you home


    - Matthew Oates, author of In Pursuit of Butterflies
  • Lavishly capturing the nature of the season in all its slow, sensual splendour, Summer is a potent reminder of the riches that surround us, and a poignant evocation of all that we cannot bear to lose


    - Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose Rooted

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