'Turley knows. Let’s go out to the beautiful country. Let’s smell the green grass air. Let’s get the hell out of the city.' Jeb Loy Nichols and Turley Richards move through beautiful autumn business in the hills www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jebs...

We have 3 copies of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book 'Clearing the Air' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of Chatto & Windus. Make Sure you're signed up to our mailing list for entry details!

Just some of the delectable wares available in our shop today, including a few new titles especially uploaded for Bandcamp Friday. These and many other books, zines & records will also be available on our stall at Sherbet Dab Records & Books market tomorrow, Mason & Fifth, Westbourne Park (12-6pm).

#NowPlaying: ‘Whale Station’ by The New Eves 🐋 (@transgressive.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/now-...

In the first of our new subscriber-exclusive author interviews, @nicolawriting.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about lapwings, spectres of woman-farmers past, and the advent of agricultural chemicals steady.page/en/caughtbyt... Image: Jeremy Prout

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

On a Suffolk beach, Maartje Scheltens meets an artwork that marks out the passage of time, shell-by-shell 🐚 🐚 🐚 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/at-s...

Beautiful "They come with a purpose; I just come to exist."

In the first of our new subscriber-exclusive author interviews, @nicolawriting.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about lapwings, spectres of woman-farmers past, and the advent of agricultural chemicals steady.page/en/caughtbyt... Image: Jeremy Prout

On a Suffolk beach, Maartje Scheltens meets an artwork that marks out the passage of time, shell-by-shell 🐚 🐚 🐚 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/at-s...

Opening next month at Grey Gallery, London Fields as part of PhotoMonth East London, Frank Watson's 'Out of Whack' considers how we mistreat the English landscape, whilst simultaneously idolising picture postcard depictions of pastoral scenes www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/out-...

We have 3 copies of @naturalistdara.bsky.social's latest book 'A Wild Child's Guide to Nature at Night' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!

Blown away by this. Such an insightful & generous review. You never really know if something has worked, if your true intention has been recognised; if the risk of trying to do something a bit different has paid off. But when someone you admire sees other stuff too, well; totally made up. #booksky

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.' Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

From Monday, we are making some big changes to our paid subscription offering, introducing bonus author interviews, seasonal reflections, and reading/watching/listening recommendations, plus, for Lunkers, a 15% discount in our Bandcamp shop. Details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/new-...

Something for the drawing-in nights. #NowPlaying: ‘Delphinium Bliss’ by Cassandra Jenkins. Taken from the album 'My Light, My Massage Parlor', out now on Dead Oceans www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/now-...

This excellent film / reissue project / happening is seeking funds. Definitely one for fans of Penda's Fen, Robin Redbreast, Red Shift etc.

Delighted that @nicolawriting.bsky.social 's 'Ghosts of the Farm is Book of the Month on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social website. Trust me, the horses alone are compelling... but then the story unfolds of one woman's entry into farming...& so much that still haunts us today! Read a tempting extract!

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film 'The Watchers', shot on the moors above Todmorden by students of the Royal College of Art www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/folk...

‘What if he asks me the name of a beetle and I don’t know it, what if I can’t answer why the sky is blue, why ladybirds poo little blobs of yellow?’ As froglike jolts signal big life changes, Lucy Underwood considers her proximity to the natural world 🐞 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/betw...

We have 3 copies of David E. Vaughan's 'The Secret Life of Corals' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @mngssbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details! 🪸

'I am eight years old. I am a horse. But. I am also its rider.' Read an extract from @nicolawriting.bsky.social's ‘Ghosts of the Farm’ (@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social) - our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

Filmed on location in English countrysides, cityscapes and rehearsal rooms in November 2024, Michael Stasiak's 'Take Our Chances' captures the making of @modernnature.bsky.social's acclaimed fourth album 'The Heat Warps' (@bellaunion.bsky.social). Watch now: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/take...

Thrilled that #GhostsoftheFarm is @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social’s BOTM … you can read an extract on The Bedroom Carpet Farm, here:

'I am eight years old. I am a horse. But. I am also its rider.' Read an extract from @nicolawriting.bsky.social's ‘Ghosts of the Farm’ (@chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social) - our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

We should all be deeply grateful for Emma Warren’s timely cultural history of the youth club (@faberbooks.bsky.social), writes social historian and former youth worker Ken Worpole (@kgeorgew.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/up-t...

We should all be deeply grateful for Emma Warren’s timely cultural history of the youth club (@faberbooks.bsky.social), writes social historian and former youth worker Ken Worpole (@kgeorgew.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/up-t...

Yellowing the Orchard: As English apple season arrives, @ysella.bsky.social writes on the arts of picking, harmonious growing, and eating 🍎 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/yell...

'Working the land without fossil fuels, using only hand tools & horses, has shown me a way of life pared back to a tangible human capacity.' In an extract from ‘Common Treasures Vol 1’, Megan Willoughby shares insights from her off-grid community in Somerset www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/loss...

THE 25 COMEBACK SPECIAL: Bill Drummond gives insight into his year managing The Ghost of Elvis www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/the-...

'I wonder if the people in their graves are now surrounded by flint, if it is wedged in between their bones — intertwining minerals.’ From a churchyard bench, Lena Stahl surveys a million years of north Norfolk life www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/grav...

'Horatio has a way of telling another person's story, which is unlike anything I have come across in all the welter of news... an exceptionally fine book.' Sue Brooks on We Came by Sea @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/we-c...

'I wonder if the people in their graves are now surrounded by flint, if it is wedged in between their bones — intertwining minerals.’ From a churchyard bench, Lena Stahl surveys a million years of north Norfolk life www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/grav...

THE 25 COMEBACK SPECIAL: Bill Drummond gives insight into his year managing The Ghost of Elvis www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/the-...

'Working the land without fossil fuels, using only hand tools & horses, has shown me a way of life pared back to a tangible human capacity.' In an extract from ‘Common Treasures Vol 1’, Megan Willoughby shares insights from her off-grid community in Somerset www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/loss...

#NowPlaying: ‘Starling Descends’ by Flaer www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/now-... Taken from the first full-length album 'Translations', out this Friday on ODDA.

Yellowing the Orchard: As English apple season arrives, @ysella.bsky.social writes on the arts of picking, harmonious growing, and eating 🍎 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/yell...

‘As Union Jacks are appearing, even in this corner of rural Gloucestershire, this book carries a different flag. Stories of a greater Britain.’ @horatioclare.bsky.social's ‘We Came By Sea’ tells migrants’ stories with humanity, writes Sue Brooks www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/we-c...

Just in time for Bandcamp Friday, we’ve added a handful of lovely new books to the shop from Ancient Magic Books in Cornwall — perhaps our favourite independent publishing house working in the UK at the moment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/shop...

A year-long performance piece by Patricia Auchterlonie and Hestor Dart, ‘Loomeweight’ is the detritus of our late-stage capitalist world woven into the long past, writes Jenny Vuglar www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/loom... Photos: Geir Engene

After a few months out of print, we’re very pleased to share that these two beautiful and popular titles from Black Lodge Press are BACK! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/back... 🍅 🌱 🍅 🌱 🍅 🌱 🍅 🌱 🍅 🌱 🍅

'Britain’s involvement in war-fighting in many parts of the world can be read off these built-up areas [...] revealing a very different story about national heritage than the one offered by Stonehenge.' Read an extract from ‘England’s military heartland’: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/engl...

Medieval churches, pteridomania and custard creams: in the latest instalment of 'Unfurling', @golowmor.bsky.social considers ferns’ lasting entanglement with the idea of beauty 🌿✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/unfu...

‘I’ve decided this is my mid-life crisis. Shirley Valentine in a North Face jacket.’ Read an extract from @jennashworth.bsky.social’s ‘The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North’, our August Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/jenn...

'Our moony pupils meet for a few delicious seconds, before I realise what is happening and startle the bird with a sharp intake of breath.' Dog Walk Report: @divaeh.bsky.social reflects on a summer of big, ancient oaks and Little Owls 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/dog-...

Opening next month at Somerset Rural Life Museum, 'A Life Outside' offers a new appraisal of the work & life of the writer and artist Hope Bourne, who recorded the landscape, wildlife, history & changing rural traditions of Exmoor www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/a-li... Image © The Exmoor Society

Always a joy to share letters with writer-crofter Kirsteen Bell about our crofting homes in coastal Wester Ross & mountainous Lochaber. Here's the latest, published by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social in the series Coast, Croft& Hill. www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/crof... Happy reading 😊

Released yesterday, ‘Return’ is a transportive new film which brings to life the @rspb.bsky.social and partners’ successful 50 year-long endeavour to bring the White-tailed Eagle back to our shores 🦅 Watch in full: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/retu...

Croft, Coast and Hill: @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s latest croft-to-croft correspondence comes accompanied by grasshopper chitters, and the smell of crushed heather www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/crof...