MEDICINE TREE: REPAIRING THE ROTTEN ROOTS OF ENGLAND (HB)

Through a golden autumn, and the frosts and floods of winter and early spring, Nick Hayes explores an Oxfordshire estate that, acknowledging the colonial origins of its wealth, has become a haven for those who are unable and unwilling to be part of a countryside geared towards profit at any cost. Living and working among this extraordinary community of farmers and craftspeople, Hayes contemplates what the English have lost, as their sense of kinship with the land, and the deep knowledge that arises from it, has been destroyed.