Over on Substack, I wrote about going to visit a cheese maker who lives down the road open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

Over on Substack I wrote about a tireless political radical who tried to introduce capercaillie to Norfolk open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

reviewed @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social's excellent Uncommon Ground for the latest Resurgence & Ecologist. I had too much to say about this book to squeeze into 600 words, so ended up a bit incoherent. But suffice to say: highly recommended.

3. "Another Rave Review" @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social "The rules of the UK’s outdoor rave scene are simple: Keep the secret. Arrive in darkness. Don’t post on socials. Leave before the police arrive." www.the-fence.com/another-rave...

Over on substack I wrote about making toilet seats out of English walnut A worthy end for beautiful timber open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

Over on substack I wrote about the need to do so much more the grey partridge, and why it matters open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

Also featuring writing from Clive Martin, Jade Angeles Fitton, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, @henrywismayer.bsky.social, Tom Parker Bowles, @bronmaher.bsky.social, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, William Hanson and Katy Hessel.

The Pub Is Finally Open! With writing from @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @anakinsella.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social, John Banville and @vizcomic.bsky.social. Available at all bookstores & the link below 🍺 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310...

“In the past 70 years, Norfolk has lost some 8000 ponds” Over on substack, I wrote about the joy or restoring centuries old ponds open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

Over on substack, I wrote about the best fish I ever caught “There is something about fishing that makes you move slowly and look properly — even if it’s only later that you come to really appreciate what you saw” open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

“They lived on the edge – they are part of that rural underclass that urban Britain cannot see.” Over on Scribehound, I wrote about the madness of Sycamore Gap www.scribehound.com/countryside/...

“But which field was it shot in?” Over on substack, I wrote about the immense joy of selling venison locally open.substack.com/pub/ducktown...

Why do people put deer heads up on the wall and are they just hippies, in a roundabout way? Head over to substack for my thoughts open.substack.com/pub/patrickg...

I finished this book today and I strongly recommend that everyone with even a fraction of an interest in the countryside should either read it or listen to it as an audio book. Patrick Galbraith has covered the subject of countryside access from every conceivable angle. 🧵

Issue 24 is here 🛏️ www.the-fence.com/shop With writing from @bronmaher.bsky.social, @evawiseman.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social, @emmafmagnus.bsky.social, Sophie Wilkinson, John Phipps, Ray Philip, Clare Considine & many more. Cover by Nishant Choksi.

Looking forward to @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social at FORUM Books talking #UncommonGround - vital, engaging & highly relevant to our Northumberland community 💚 we’d love to see you there! 🗓️ Mon 9 June 🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks/f...

🏺 I always find @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social 's perspectives on things challenging and refreshing, in the best way. There's a lot in this review for anyone interested in human relations to & engagement with land, including the archaeological (in its many senses)

Last summer I reviewed 'Wild Service', an anthology/manifesto from the Right to Roam camp (who have not, let's say, responded positively to Galbraith's book). engelsbergideas.com/reviews/walk...

Getting Deep into Land Access Issues with @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social. ➡️ Full episode pinned in my profile. 🎧

I reviewed @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social's magnificent new book, UNCOMMON GROUND. "No-one that I know of matches Galbraith’s rangy, restless, itinerant curiosity about what’s over that fence, who lives here, what this or that fellow thinks about things." engelsbergideas.com/reviews/coun...

Are we being locked out of the countryside, or is land access more nuanced? How can we balance the needs of farmers, conservationists and recreational users? In his new book, 'Uncommon Ground', @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social takes on this contentious topic. 🎧➡️ pod.fo/e/2d7a91

In the writing of @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social, country life has won the observer and interpreter it needs. Countryside writing’s rebirth | @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/coun...

I'll be hosting @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social on behalf of @thebookery.bsky.social this coming Thursday, when I'll be trying to maintain order as we discuss land access, nature and our relationship with the countryside around us. Come along and be part of it.

Happy publication day to Patrick McCabe's Goldengrove, out now (unbound.com/products/gol...) A perfect time to revisit the brilliant piece Pat wrote for us, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/when-holly...

Delighted with these reviews of my new book on land access Last weekend, the FT said that “a nuanced look at this white-hot debate and the often-unheard voices affected by it was overdue” If you haven’t bought a copy, hit up Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/uncommo...

Sad because: my best half is away Happy because: half the bed empty means the WHOLE bedside table is available for NEW BOOKS 🩶 #everycloud @troopersnooks.bsky.social @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social

Review of Uncommon Ground by @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com #access #nature www.ft.com/content/51c9...

A hugely positive and immensely perceptive review of Uncommon Ground in the FT “A nuanced look at this white-hot debate and the often-unheard voices affected by it was overdue. In Uncommon Ground, journalist Patrick Galbraith’s superb second book, we have it.” www.ft.com/content/51c9...

This is on, next Tuesday @themerl.bsky.social, 11.30-12.30. merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...

New #book day - currently half way through @chantallyons.bsky.social Groundbreakers 🐗 and these are next #naturewriting #nature #wildlife #people @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social & Jack Hoy #Mersea

Storm2 @righttoroam.bsky.social doesn't like @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social book. Listen to him on Start the Week and hear what he says. Also, I'm keen to see Right to Roam's nature policy. Blog: markavery.info/2025/05/04/s...

'If people really engaged with the countryside, really understood it, I think there would be fewer calls for more access.' @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social speaks to @tommygilhooly.bsky.social about his book, Uncommon Ground (@harpercollins.bsky.social). Here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-un...

I had a great time talking to the always-brilliant @ericawgnr.bsky.social about my new book. She really gets it open.spotify.com/episode/4qRi...

Went for a walk, wrote about it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking forward to catching up with Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social and Monica Feria Tinta discussing the rights of nature ..and anticipating #IsARiverAlive

Fantastic discussions on Start The Week this morning, with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, Monica Feria Tinta, and @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social. Nuance, complexity and breaking binaries, mixed with rights of nature and coexistence with more-than-human others.

I should say this more often and more loudly, but @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social is by far both the best and most important writer on the countryside we've had in years.

Excellent review this, by my @scotsman.com colleague @katharinehay.bsky.social, of the new book by @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social about land access in the UK www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Nice review in today’s Observer “Looks beyond the usual cliches of country life: An excellent second book, acutely observed, and often very funny” You can pre-order it here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/unc...

Book review: Uncommon Ground by @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2025/04/13/s... Mostly about access to the countryside. Chats with many people in many places. 'Highly recommended' #access #righttoroam #land #ownership #ramble @openspacessociety.bsky.social

I’m told it’s good 🙏

🚨🚨 New book alert 🚨🚨 Had the excellent good fortune to bump into pal @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social the other day and bagged an early signed copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside — out 24 April 2025 uk.bookshop.org/a/1353/97800...

@universityofessex.bsky.social #Colchester Wivenhoe Park #campus as painted by John #Constable is the front cover of a new book on our relationship with the "countryside" - author @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social considers responsibilities, public access, wildlife, farming and more

With Booker prize winner Orbital coming in as the second-shortest book to take the title, in the latest episode of the Boundless podcast @ericawgnr.bsky.social and @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social discuss why books seem to be getting shorter while podcasts get longer Spotify: shorturl.at/vulTd

Listen to Hannah Hayden chat to @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social about the threat of AI, the world of erotic fantasy, and enticing a readership of lumberjacks, on the latest episode of the Boundless podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/19Uh... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Next up, a sneak preview of @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social 's UncommonGround. A few pages in & already nodding so hard in agreement I think I'll do myself a neck injury if I continue! (Also an occasional "FFS! I've got that quote, I was going to say that, in my current WIP!", but I don't really mind)

I’m kind of out of the loop, are joke shop beards for author photos in or out currently?

'People used to say ‘you’ll never gentrify the Bush’. It was a badge of pride that this neighbourhood was beyond respectability and the smoothings of super-capitalism.' Author and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi pays homage to his beloved Shepherd's Bush Road: boundlesslit.substack.com/p/youll-neve...