Have a great 2026.

Thank you

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.

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

New ‘Maximus’ bull arrived today

This long interview on the state of farming and our food system with @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is really interesting. The bit from about 45 minutes in especially so.

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.

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.

🌱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...

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

“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.

And this… unherd.com/2025/11/coul...

I’d do this… www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

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

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...

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

So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social

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

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

Just one more calf due this year

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

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

Restoring paradise

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...

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

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

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

“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!

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

'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/...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Looking forward to talking to Rebecca Solnit at Hay Festival

Buzz

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.

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

Thank you

Only a few places left on our July Grazing School - rootsofnature.co.uk/product/graz... Looking at best practice on growing grass, repairing soil and managing livestock to best effect for the land Places will go quick

Listen to “Passing On the Farm to My Daughter” by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Q1X... A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.

#Booksky Just finished this absolutely brilliant read by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social can thoroughly recommend if you're looking to lose yourself in an inspiring book!