GREEN UNPLEASANT LAND (PEEPAL TREE PRESS) (PB)

Combining essays, poems and stories, Green Unpleasant Land details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. Author Corrine Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain’s cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses, and stately homes.