The reading room
Books we love
Across craft, gardening and food, we share the books that have caught our attention and earned a place on our shelves.
Some celebrate the skills of making, others offer quiet inspiration for home and garden. Browse our recommendations and discover titles to read, revisit and pass on.
This week's reading
Beginning with their first meeting in over 20 years at their grandfather’s home in Lincolnshire, the two cousins – Eleanor and Lucilla – quickly learn that each has a fascination with unearthing historic artifacts, which will set them off on their metal detecting journey …
Over many weeks and months spent digging countless holes, the pair make startling discoveries: about the objects they find and what they tell us about our ancestors, about themselves and who they are as people, and about the power of community, as they forge connections with local villagers, detectorists and history lovers along the way.
This charming tale of (self-)discovery will capture the hearts and minds of those seeking escapism through the buried history that we walk over every day.
We promote books via Bookshop.org to support independent bookshops. They give us a small percentage of each sale as a thank you. It’s a great way of keeping high street book shops alive if you can afford to buy new, but another great way to buy books is picking up a second hand copy via World of Books.