The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world's anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, Saunders writes with a deep connection to the natural world and his signature humane zest for life. Lovingly illustrated with Saunders's own drawings, the result is a joyful, personal, and deeply attentive stroll through an enchanted land of blue and green.
Saunders N Whittlesey Books






Yes to Europe!
- 422 pages
- 15 hours of reading
The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
Doc Holliday
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
He was a dentist from the South believed to have gone west because of tuberculosis, a man who went on to become a gambler, a faro dealer, and one of the most feared (and fearless) gunfighters of his time--a close friend of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the famous 1881 shootout at the OK Corral.
Gangs of Dundee
- 175 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Book about how developmental changes and housing schemes in Dundee from 1945 onwards became overrun by street gangs. Some of these gangs still survive today.
An exploration of the worldviews that underpinned settler colonialism. The sixteenth-century European wars of religion set the stage for mass migration to the New World. Of course, there was nothing new about the New World to Indigenous peoples who had lived there for millennia. Insatiable Hunger compares European historical accounts and Indigenous stories of contact to illustrate the wide cultural chasm that separated the two civilizations. Joseph Graham tells a story of religiously obsessed Europeans pouring onto the continent and consuming everything in their path and the attempts Indigenous peoples made to reason with the hungry newcomers. Tracing events from Jacques Cartier's first visits in the sixteenth century to the War of 1812, Insatiable Hunger attempts to understand the root causes of the mutual incomprehension baked into these two civilizations' worldviews. As descendants of European settlers in Canada and the United States confront the legacy of colonialism and genocide of Indigenous peoples, Insatiable Hunger will be an important primer on the worldviews at the root of this violent political project.
A-Z of Colwyn Bay
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Explore the fascinating history of Colwyn Bay in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to the town's people and places.
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation.
Secret Colwyn Bay
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Explore the secret history of Colwyn Bay through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Colwyn Bay History Tour
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A guided tour of this historic seaside town, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.
Colwyn Bay In The 1950s
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
From austerity to the start of the swinging sixties