A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from 'indisputably, one of the best nature-writers of his generation' - (Country Life)

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folklore, The Wood inhabits the mind and touches the soul.

For four years, John Lewis-Stempel managed three and a half acres of mixed woodland in south west Herefordshire that stands as exemplar for all the small woods of England. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know the wood intimately, along with the animals that live there - fox and pheasant, wood mouse and tawny owl. For many fauna and flora, woods like Cockshutt are the last refuge, just as it was to prove a sanctuary for John himself.