
Books

Prospects of England
1989

The Gentry
Stories of the English
2011

How to Be
Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
2023

Frontiers
From the Arctic to the Aegean
1985

Atlantic Britain
The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship
2010

Panoramas of England
1992

The Making of Poetry
Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
2019

Quarrel with the King
The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War
2008

The Living Will Say Hello
2025

Plough Quarterly No. 43 – Why We Work
2025

Seize the Fire
Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
2005

The Hated Wife
Carrie Kipling 1862-1939
2001

Why Homer Matters
2014

Sea Room
An Island Life in the Hebrides
2001

Seamanship
A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles
2004

Smell of Summer Grass
2011

Sissinghurst
A Castle's Unfinished History: Restoring Vita Sackville-West's Celebrated Estate
2008

Bird School
A Beginner in the Wood
2025

Men of Honour
Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero
1801

God's Secretaries
The Making of the King James Bible
2003

National Trust
1981

The Sea Is Not Made of Water
Life Between the Tides
2021

Perch Hill
A New Life
1999

The Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
2017