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Little Toller Books

Nature. Culture. Place.

 

Little Toller Books is an independent publisher based in west Dorset. We focus on nonfiction, specifically about the natural world and our relationship with it.   

 

From 2020 to 2024 we also ran the bookshop in Beaminster. This is now run separately under the name Beaminster Books, which stocks a wide range of books on many subjects, including the full range of Little Toller books:

 

Beaminster Books

2 Church Street

Beaminster

Dorset DT8 3AZ

 

 

 

Find us online at littletoller.co.uk for more about our publishing and authors, and The Clearing, our journal for new writing about nature and place.

Brightening from the East
Universality: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
Mothers and Sons
We Do Not Part
The Homemade God
A Training School for Elephants
Spring: The uplifting memoir of springtime joy - an instant Sunday Times bestseller
Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale
Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts
The Boy from the Sea
The English Path
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise
Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked Them
The North Road
Brightening from the East
Angels in the Cellar
The English Path
Set My Hand Upon The Plough
Deer Island
All Around the Year
The Allotment
Elowen
The Long Field
Wanderers in the New Forest
The Wonder Brothers
Let the Light Pour In
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure
The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry
To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Christmas Carol
Treasure Island
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Wild Places
Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands
Elowen
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain's Wild Mammals
The Seaside: England's Love Affair
The Nightingale: ‘The nature book of the year’
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Across a Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through a British Spring
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
Black Cat Bone
The Dumb House
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction
Gift Songs
Something Like Happy
I Put a Spell on You
Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir
Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Learning to Sleep
Selected Poems
Ashland & Vine
A Lie About My Father
All One Breath
A Summer of Drowning
Still Life with Feeding Snake
The Big Book of Nature Art
Passionate About Penguins
My First Pop-Up Endangered Animals
Mad About Monkeys
Obsessive About Octopuses
Crazy About Cats
Fanatical About Frogs
Animalium
Animalium (Junior Edition)
Fungarium
Moth: An Evolution Story
Yucky Worms: A natural history of the humble earthworm for young minibeast fans age 3–7
In the Sky: Designs inspired by nature
Above and Below: Sea and Shore: Lift the flaps to see nature's wonders unfold
All Change: A Book of Nature's Transformations
Rewild Your Garden: Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies
The Wildlife Gardener's Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Increasing the Biodiversity in Your Garden
The Wild Flower Key
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife
Rewilding – The Illustrated Edition: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
Restoring the Wild: Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
Flowers of the Field: Meadow, Moor and Woodland
Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond
Lawns Into Meadows, 2nd Edition: Growing a Regenerative Landscape
Meadow: The intimate bond between people, place and plants
Meadows
Wild Flowers of Britain: Month by Month
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
Enter Ghost
Western Lane
The Wren, The Wren
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Not a River
The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go
Old God's Time: The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller
The Alternatives
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
Going to Ground: An anthology of nature and place
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
Enlightenment
The Children's Bach: The perfect jewel of a family novel from one of Australia's greatest writers
Concise Bird Guide
Collins Bird Guide
George: A Magpie Memoir
Fledgling
Flight Paths: How the mystery of bird migration was solved
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
In Search of One Last Song: Britain’S Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them
Birds: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest - WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2022
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
The Nightingale: ‘The nature book of the year’
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
The Collins Garden Birdwatcher’s Bible: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Understanding Garden Birds
RSPB Guide to Birdsong
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
Rooted: How regenerative farming can change the world
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future
Farmer's Glory
The Fat of the Land
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
A Shepherd's Life
Four Fields
Community Orchards Handbook
Heritage Apples
The Worm Forgives the Plough
An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners
No Dig: Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Veg with Less Effort
The Magic of Seeds: The Nature-Lover’s Guide to Growing Garden Flowers and Herbs from Seed
Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden
RHS Resilient Garden: Sustainable Gardening for a Changing Climate
A Year Full of Veg: A Harvest for All Seasons
The Wild Bee Handbook: The Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive
The Herb Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Herbs
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
The Well-Tempered Garden: A New Edition Of The Gardening Classic
Claire Austin's Book Of Perennials New Edition
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden
A Gentle Plea for Chaos
A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
Fledgling
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
Ring of Bright Water
Tarka the Otter
Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain’s Most Enigmatic Animal
Being a Beast
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane
The Wild Life of the Fox
The Secret Life of the Owl: a beautifully illustrated and lyrical celebration of this mythical creature from bestselling and pri
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
The Goshawk: With a foreword by Helen Macdonald
The Genius of Birds
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
In the Shadow of Man
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
Diary of an Invasion
A Message from Ukraine
Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine
The Gardener from Ochakov
The Orphanage: A Novel
Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
A Matter of Death and Life
The Milkman in the Night
Mesopotamia
Herstories an Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers
Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love
Gates of Europe (Revised Edition) : A History of Ukraine
How War Changed Rondo
Clay
Addlands
Diving Belles
The Horseman: The West Country Trilogy
The Wanderers: The West Country Trilogy
The Redeemed: The West Country Trilogy
All Rivers Run Free
Return of the Native
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
The Call of the Wild
Rogue Male: Soon to be a major film
Ulverton
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Drowned World
Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life
Between the Chalk and the Sea: A pilgrim's path along the south coast
The Draw of the Sea
The Little Guide to Shorelines
The Sea: Nature and Culture
Drift: Winner of the Wales Book of the Year
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
The Seaside: England's Love Affair
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The Sea Inside
Leviathan
The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination
Coasting
Island Years, Island Farm
Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
Havergey
Snow
Black Apples of Gower
Love, Madness, Fishing: A Memoir
Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach
Ridge and Furrow: Voices from the Winter Fields
Water and Sky: Voices from the Riverside
Beyond the Fell Wall
Savage Gods
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood
The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The great mountaineering classic
Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger
A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya
Space Below My Feet
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Love and War in the Apennines
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Andes
Touching the Void
Climbing Days
Telling the Seasons: Stories, Celebrations and Folklore around the Year
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another
At the Very End of the Road
Walks in the Wild: A guide through the forest with Peter Wohlleben
Where?
Ed Kluz: The Lost House Revisited
No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen: Back to the land in wartime England
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway
Boundary Songs: Notes from the edge of the Lake District National Park
Stay with me
The Golden Valley
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre
The Furys
Brazil That Never Was
Brass
Kelly + Victor
Liverpool in 50 Buildings
The Unforgotten Coat: A funny, warm-hearted and compelling story of friendship and adversity, winner of the Guardian Children's
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on Its Own. The Long Decade: 1979-1993
The Well at Winter Solstice
Real Dorset
This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City
Scarp
The Old Weird Albion: A Journey to the Heart of the English South
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country
All The Devils Are Here
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography.
Psychogeography
Where?
Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places
Black Apples of Gower
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report
Real Gwynedd
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
The Unofficial Countryside
Food For Free
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature
The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants
Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne
Flora Britannica
A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World
Nature Cure
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon – A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour
The Distance of the Moon
A Sleepwalk on the Severn
The Quiet Moon: Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being
Living with Trees: Grow, protect and celebrate the trees and woods in your community
Living Wisdom of Trees: A Guide to the Natural History, Symbolism and Healing Power of Trees
The Tree Keepers: Flock
Tree: Seasons Come, Seasons Go
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan
The Tree
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales
Through the Woods
The Long, Long Life of Trees
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
The Ancient Woods of Helford River
The Little Book of Planting Trees
Collins Tree Guide
Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape
Through the Woods
Spring
Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3)
What to Look For in Spring
RHS Allotment Handbook & Planner: What to do when to get the most from your plot
In Pursuit of Spring
Kew: Lift and Look Trees
Weeds and Wild Flowers
Collected Poems
The Nature of Spring
Sweet Thames Run Softly
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Silver Shoals: Five Fish That Made Britain
Waterlog
Rivers: A natural and not-so-natural history
A River
Thames: Sacred River
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream
The Wind in the Willows: A stunningly illustrated full-colour edition of the charming, beloved classic, the perfect gift for chi
A Sleepwalk on the Severn
Oscar and Lucinda: Faber Modern Classics
Highland River
Tarka the Otter
Dart
Where the River Flows: Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places
Landscape and Englishness: Second Expanded Edition
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance
Common Ground: One of Britain’s Favourite Nature Books as featured on BBC’s Winterwatch
The Making of the English Landscape
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Crash
Walkabout
The English Patient: Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize
To Kill A Mockingbird
Trainspotting
A Kestrel for a Knave
Last Orders
Doctor Zhivago
2001: a Space Odyssey
Morvern Callar
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Great Expectations
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Solaris
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
The Rotters' Club
Girl, Woman, Other
Ulverton
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Cider With Rosie
The Making of the English Landscape
Sea Room
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
Sightlines
All Among the Barley
Waterland
Lost Lanes West Country: 36 Glorious bike rides in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire
Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY
Real Dorset
brother. do. you. love. me.
The Whalebone Theatre
Moonfleet
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Lost Lanes West Country: 36 Glorious bike rides in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire
On Chesil Beach
Purbeck & South Dorset, Poole, Dorchester, Weymouth & Swanage
Lyme Regis and Bridport
Holloway
Tyneham: A Lost Heritage
Discover Dorset Fossils
Roads, Tracks and Turnpikes
Place-names
Dorset Folk Tales for Children
The Big Book of the UK: Facts, folklore and fascinations from around the United Kingdom
MAPS: Deluxe Edition
Africa, Amazing Africa: Country by Country: An illustrated journey around Africa, introducing young readers to the continent’s h
Space Maps: Your Tour of the Universe
Great Explorers Atlas
Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps
Children's Picture Atlas
Barefoot Books World Atlas
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: A Collection of Natural Wonders, Marine Marvels and Undersea Antics from Across the Globe
The Wanderer
Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea
Mrs Armitage And The Big Wave
Speed Bonnie Boat: A Tale from Scottish History Inspired by the Skye Boat Song
Tiddler
The Snail and the Whale
The Lonely Sea Dragon
Dolphin Boy: 15th Anniversary Edition
Flotsam: A Caldecott Award Winner
Ocean: A Photicular Book
Smart About Sharks
The Blue Whale
The Storm Whale in Winter
The Storm Whale
Nen and the Lonely Fisherman
Rogue Male: Soon to be a major film
Christopher Wood
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Kitchen
The Woman in White
Austerlitz
Collected Stories
Antarctica: ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ THE TIMES
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
Over Sea, Under Stone: The Dark is Rising sequence
Seining Along Chesil: Voices from a Dorset fishing community
Fifty Words for Snow
Snow
Lolly Willowes

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