Spent much of Christmas Day reading. Finished this book today from @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social as part of my background research. Fabulous read. 🍃🌎

‘As much heart & plot as any good novel’ Really thrilled to be chosen as Book of the Year by @lissakevans.bsky.social for @writersreview.bsky.social! #booksky @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

👆 Pre-order via your local indie book store 📚 or through @bookshop.org or other supportive non-billionaire portals. This collaboration between @tamsintheshed.bsky.social and Jackie Morris is sublimely beautiful. #BookSky #StoneClub 📚🏺 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

The Accidental Seed Heroes by @theseeddetective.bsky.social recommended by @foodtank.bsky.social to add to your reading list for a better food future! #booksky foodtank.com/news/2025/10...

What motivates climate criminals? Learn more with this episode of The Climate Pod and get a copy of @drjuliashaw.bsky.social new #nonfiction book, Green Crime theclimatepod.libsyn.com/what-motivat...

Listen to Shawn and Beth Dougherty on the Everyday Homesteading podcast and check out their new book, One-Cow Revolution homesteadingfamily.com/can-anyone-k...

Chatting all things writing & #GhostsoftheFarm. An interview with the wonderful Penny Locke from @pennypostwb.bsky.social (whose weekly local news is always an extensive, positive, informative joy to read) www.mixcloud.com/4legsradio/n... @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

Listen to @drjuliashaw.bsky.social on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social What on Earth discussing her new book, GREEN CRIME www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

'a wonderful writer ... a book about working women, & finding a way to ‘farm’ in different ways, when the opportunities aren’t there for you... [where] the reader becomes a virtual time traveler.' Such a lovely review for #GhostsoftheFarm @lookattheview.bsky.social in Country Smallholder!

Really very special to be included in @civileats.com 2025 Winter Holiday Book Gift Guide! The true story of Miss White & her incredible, innovative women farmers of the 40s & 50s would be delighted! @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

News in from my lovely editor that piles of both my books are on tables in Foyles in Charing Cross Road, & Waterstones in Piccadilly! Lovely to think of them there, & in amazing company! My women farmers & little girl me would be thrilled. Grown up me is thrilled! @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

What a wonderful list! 🎁💚 Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social The Accidental Seed Heroes by @theseeddetective.bsky.social Wildcrafted Seeds and Grains by Pascal Baudar The Self-Fed Farm and Garden by Eliot Coleman Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social

I've gobbled up the first few chapters of #GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social, and I'm loving it. #BookSky #RuralWriting #NatureWriting #LifeWriting #Memoir #FarmingWomen #WW2 #Countryside

Just finished @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s #GhostsOfTheFarm. Bloody hell, she’s only done it again—another staggeringly beautiful book. I couldn’t stop thinking: “God, I wish I’d written that line!” No one does elegiac like she does; tender, subtle, exquisite. #naturewriting

Delighted to have a feature on #GhostsoftheFarm in #BBCCountryfile A story that revealed itself in a filmic, elegiac, dusty light, & truly haunted me. God I'd love to see this as a film. I can picture my forgotten women, zipping each other into dresses, forsaking breeches, to gales of laughter.

Great news-Wild Folk, written by the incredible Jackie Morris and illuminated in stained glass by me now has a fantastic new publisher @chelseagreenbooks The book will finally be launched in North America and launched afresh in the UK at the Spring Equinox 2026!

'An interview on history and hope.' I talk to The Voice of Fashion about my new book, The Nature of Fashion. @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social www.thevoiceoffashion.com/climate-acti... #naturewriting

Wildcrafted Seeds and Grains by Pascal Baudar named the Best Cookbook of 2025 for the Forager by KCRW Good Food! "Mind blowing." — @kcrwevan.bsky.social #BookSky #Nonfiction www.kcrw.com/shows/good-f...

Wonderful to return to #Highclere Castle (we used to work & live on the estate) & be a guest on Lady Carnarvon’s Book Club with #GhostsoftheFarm. I met #DaughtersofBritain earlier who had the same sunflower yellow Fordson tractor as Doris & Julia’s Racing Lizzie! @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social 1/2

Listen to @chrissmaje.bsky.social talk about his new book, Finding Lights in a Dark Age, on the Doomer Optimism podcast #BookSky #Nonfiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5U...

Wonderful night in Shaftesbury with the lovely Karen & Amber @foldedorset.bsky.social, teasing apart the many threads of #GhostsoftheFarm Super crowd, & so good to see the legendary Sue Clifford & Angela King (of Common Ground fame) again, AND explore the new Folde Up on its 2nd day. It’s GORGEOUS!

Happy North American Pub Day to Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social and Green Crime by @drjuliashaw.bsky.social! 🎉 New #Nonfiction #Booksky

Lovely warm welcome from the @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey crowd… & a really wonderful interview from @julia-in-between.bsky.social. So glad I managed to hobble & make it!

"The agrarian localist future, along with its attendant cultural habits and political and community structures, are systems we ought to be creating now—collapse or no collapse—simply because they are the most convivial and sustainable way of living on this earth and are the right things to do." 💚

Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social is 'a guidebook (or a guiding light) to navigate the “dark ages” ahead and to journey toward localist agrarian flourishing' #BookSky www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/11/buil...

Read the Nature of Fashion by @carrysomers.bsky.social excerpt, Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton, on @bioneers.org bioneers.org/threads-of-r...

New releases out today in North America and the UK! 💙📚💡

Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social chosen as a @thespectator1828.bsky.social Book of the Year! www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...

Can’t wait to chatter all things #GhostsoftheFarm at Romsey Waterstones 6th Nov, then @foldedorset.bsky.social on the 13th. Rural women, farmgatekeeping, WWII Homefront, horses, cowgirls, farm wildlife, barn owls, the SOUND & sight of the northern lights, climate & land justice… & ghosts! #booksky

Join me @waterstones.bsky.social Romsey, Thursday 6th November, when I’ll be chatting about discovering some incredible, forgotten, rural women, cowgirls, farm wildlife & what happened when the farmgate was shut on women 80yrs ago. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social

#GhostsOfTheFarm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social is an outstanding fusion of memoir and creative historical non-fiction. It is tender and sentiment-filled, without ever being sentimental, and strikes a deeply painful, elegiac note without losing hope…

Join Good Grief Network founders LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis-Reau online in conversation Rob Hopkins, about his new book, How to Fall in Love with the Future. Monday 10 November 2025 12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT Free or by donation, register here, bit.ly/3IyoKyz,

A bold, timely history by leading Black farmer Michael Carter, Jr. illuminating the massive contributions to US agriculture made by African expertise and innovation.⁠ ⁠ #NewBookAlert AFRICULTURE is available for preorder—releasing May 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction linkin.bio/chelseagreen...

Just in from lovely @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social “When you have an intense love for the rural landscape & everything it represents: history geography, the human spirit - good and bad, then a book like this is sublime, a panacea for what ails us now. Read it & you’ll feel it too!” #GhostsoftheFarm

Taunton / Somerset peeps! Am at #TauntonLiteraryFestival with the lovely @brendonbooks.bsky.social & in an incredible line up. Would LOVE to see you for all things #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social #booksky

I’m thrilled to announce that my debut memoir, HOLY MOTHER!, will be published in fall 2027 by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. If you love books about spiritual rabbit holes or cults, this is for you. Endless thanks to my incredible agent @lmscovel.bsky.social, who made this dream a reality.

These insights come from both his wide academic understanding and his own experience of living in various shapes of community and producing food and fuel for local needs; theory grounded in practice. And as ever there is a kindness in his writing, and a gentle humour, which I find endearing.

My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world. Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding... Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...

Happy Publication Day! Grow a New Garden by Becky Searle 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Finding Lights in a Dark Age by @chrissmaje.bsky.social 🇬🇧 #Nonfiction

Grateful to @lauraparker.bsky.social for this wonderful full page review of #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social in www.countrylife.co.uk 8 Oct. ‘The author is at her best when immersed in rural detail… Mrs Chester has found something truly haunting.’ #booksky

#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...

Place of work, home & mode of transport, 1988, 1989. High River & Bragg Creek, Alberta. #GhostsoftheFarm @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social Turning up treasures in a house move to the strains of ‘Four strong winds that blow lonely .. ‘

In the rather swish Absolutely Berkshire Magazine with #GhostsoftheFarm #booksky ‘We ask an awful lot from our farmers, in a way we don’t from other people’s jobs. But we need farming to work for all of us. Farmers, consumers, climate & wildlife are the 4 legs holding up the table we eat from.’

How do some plants live for thousands of years? Which adaptations & evolutionary strategies allow them to thrive in some of the harshest places on the planet for so long—and so well? #NewBookAlert IN BOTANICAL TIME is available for preorder—releasing Feb 2026. #BookSky #Nonfiction bit.ly/3VYNYcG

Enjoying "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" by that @chrissmaje.bsky.social which arrived a good week before the official publication date, but I need to stop reading now and go to the allotment... You can buy it and support your local bookshop at Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Chri...

I finished Eagar: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social ! What an amazing book, one that makes you long for the soggy landscape of America before colonization. Eager was written with a true love of beavers and their place in the ecosystem, covering --

Listen to @robintransition.bsky.social's new episode How to Fall in Love with the Future on How to Train a Happy Mind #podcast www.skepticspath.org/podcast/how-...

A wonderful night to launch #GhostsoftheFarm, & a lovely, lively sell-out crowd in this pertinent setting! Huge thanks Muna Reyal @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & @hungerfordbookshop.bsky.social It’s out in the world! Look out for Doris & Julia on their straw-yellow Fordson tractor, Racing Lizzie!

My latest book review looks at @nicolawriting.bsky.social's wonderful "Ghosts of the Farm". It tells the story of Julia White, a woman farmer in the 1940s, together with Nicola's own story and ponders land, gender, politics and much more. Read it. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/10/nico...