Inspiration

20th century:

Virginia Woolf Orlando; Helen Thomas As It Was & World Without End; Stevie Smith The Holiday; Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie; Antonia White Through The Looking Glass; Colette Claudine series; Sylvia Townsend Warner Lolly Willowes; Iris Murdoch The Bell

Contemporary:

Adam Thorpe Ulverton; Timothy Findley Pilgrim; AS Byatt: Possession and The Children’s Book; David Mitchell Cloud Atlas; Rose Tremain Restoration; Richard Holmes Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer; Frances Wilson The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

Landscape & Countryside:

The Horse in the Furrow George Ewart Evans; The History of the Countryside Oliver Rackham; The Gamekeeper at Home Richard Jeffries