Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
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Nicola Chester
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See, a proper book, (little book, but a proper one) with an ISBN number and everything. Cover reveal and ordering details coming soon-ish. And yes, there is an-anti piracy, anti LLM curse embedded in the text. It is Hookland – you'd expect nothing less.
This post is only an hour old, but the comments are already proving the shift of our focus is real …
There are homeowners who refuse to be haunted by anything less than a lord or a lady. Refuse to accept their spectres are more likely to be chimney sweeps' climbing boys, maids who took their own lives. Sooty prints and shattered vases tell workers' tales. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
The big hill(s) through a veil (a vale!) of rain. Gallows Down of Julia White’s farm (1941-1955) & Ham Hill & the Bull’s Tail, above the Wiltshire Bloomsberries’ Ham Spray, & Doris & Marguerite’s Farm (1938-1989). Imagining them WhatsApping: “Clearing Storm coming to you Julia! A weather window!”
Congratulations to @nicwilson.bsky.social on paperback publication day for Land Beneath the Waves. It’s a beautiful, raw, moving & brave memoir - go on & treat yourself!
Cant wait to read Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes - who very generously gave #GhostsoftheFarm a shout out as a recommended read! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Not holding back on routinely planting Laurel as a garden hedge, in my rural opinion column in #BBCCountryfile. Plus lovely stuff on rare breed Boreray Sheep, the importance of community involvement & local abbatoirs, from John Craven & Jane Cooper & her ‘Lost Flock.’ @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social
Wonderfully informative Guardian Country Diary from regenerative arable farmer Colin Chappell: preparation, weather-watching, waiting … www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A rainy Manor Farm. Children’s voices spilling from a wood (for Forest School); a small digger arriving for the History Society’s archaeological dig, & thank you notes arriving at local houses for the weekend’s Scout Camp. Julia, Doris & Marguerite of the Manor Farms, 1940s on, would love this.
It’s out folks, the paperback of #thecuckooslea. Newly designed with cool, fold-out flappy bits! If you’ve not bought the book yet, now’s your moment; if you have, well, you’ll want this copy too! ☺️ #birdsandplace #naturewriting
Nicola Chester
Nicola Chester
Nicola Chester
Nicola Chester
Sara welcomes Emily Dickens back to the Book Club to discuss her new novel.
Brigg, Lincolnshire: With harvest approaching, we’re putting the glorious long evenings to good use, and both humans and insects are working hard to protect the crops
this World Cup we should stop asking 'is it coming home' and focus instead on 'are you coming to The Museum of English Rural Life'
Singing along to 'Paperback Writer' 40 years ago on holiday in the back of my grandparents' old VW camper van, I honestly never thought I'd become one. But today, I am!
Get your copy of Land Beneath the Waves from the wonderful Word on the Water London Bookbarge: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/land...
