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Tom Fort

    Tom Fort's work delves into the social history of grass and its cultivation. His writing explores the fascinating, often overlooked world of lawns and humanity's obsession with them. Through detailed research, he uncovers how lawn care has become a cultural phenomenon with deep societal roots. His prose is engaging and insightful, inviting readers to see the landscapes around them anew.

    Downstream
    The Book of Eels
    The A303
    Casting Shadows
    Against the Flow
    Under the Weather
    • 2023

      Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style.

      Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
    • 2021

      The Far From Compleat Angler

      • 226 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Tom Fort, a former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, brings his sharp wit and keen insights to the world of fishing. Renowned as one of Britain's most entertaining fishing writers, his work combines humor with a deep understanding of the sport, offering readers both engaging narratives and thoughtful reflections on the angling experience.

      The Far From Compleat Angler
    • 2020

      A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams.

      Casting Shadows
    • 2017

      The Village News is a whimsical, funny and informative travelogue by pedal power of a variety of villages across our nation that encapsulate, or showcase, all the best elements of what could be seen as the English village.

      The Village News
    • 2015

      Ahumorous, discursive, utterly absorbing journey from Dover to Land's End, along the English Channel shore, the busiest waterway in the world

      Channel Shore
    • 2013

      The story of one of the country's most loved - and loathed - roads.

      The A303
    • 2011

      Against the Flow

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Many years ago, Tom Fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe, bound for all points east. Eastern Europe was still a faraway place, just emerging from its half-century of waking nightmare, blinking, injured, full of fears but importantly full of hope too. Things were different then.

      Against the Flow
    • 2010

      You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them. The memory plays curious tricks, and things aren t al

      Against the flow : wading through Eastern Europe
    • 2009

      Downstream

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.1(16)Add rating

      Downstream is a celebration of rivers: an exploration of what they mean to us and an account of what we owe to them. Travelling partly on foot and bicycle, but chiefly in a plywood fifteen foot punt, Fort journeyed through the unsung heart of Middle England, showing him the unseen face of his own country.

      Downstream
    • 2007

      Under the Weather

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Contains two interlocking strands: the story of those who sought to know and understand our weather; and the story of its impact on us - our history, our culture, the way we think and behave. This work focuses on the people who volunteered and toiled for the cause, telling their stories by tracking them down to the places.

      Under the Weather