Books

How I Write

The agony and the ecstasy...authors on the writing process.

Top Ten Book Shops in the South West

From state of the art reading emporiums to the smallest second hand bookshops our favourite places to browse in the South West. Read more
Ten Minutes With Tracy Chevalier

Best-selling author Tracy Chevalier talks to Country Calling about her favourite secret places in Dorset and the book that made her a household name. Read more
A Writer’s Life For Me

Somerset author, Helena Drysdale, heads off to the Italian hills to teach a creative writing course… Read more
From Plot To Pot

This new book from Country Calling’s Garden Guru Madeleine Cardozo makes sense of all those burgeoning vegetables with its brilliant mix of interesting, every day recipes. Madeleine, writer, photographer, gardener, cook and mother to six, has a knack of making country living look effortless yet chic. We say grab yourself a bit of her know-how with this fantastic new cook book and you can fake the rest. Read more