Land & Sky Press
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth”
Tolstoy,War and Peace (1869)
Published July 2025
Available now from Central Books
This is the story of an ordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. A vivid and entertaining picture of everyday life before, during and after the 1917 Russian revolution.
Woven into this astonishing account are factual observations accompanying hardly known historical events, such as the construction and development of Norilsk, a ‘secret’ city in the heart of a Siberian gulag.
The Memoirs of Maria Doroshinskaya form an important contribution to 20th century social history, speaking of, and for, millions of ordinary citizens, caught up in great cycles of change. It is both fascinating autobiography, and simple narrative which evokes the style and content of epic Russian literature.
ISBN: 978-1-9164918-8-5
246 pp. GBP 14.99
Available in print and ebook / PDF download soon. Preview some low resolution pages here:
In the words of project instigator Violeta Jaffray:
“It all started with a simple idea—selling second-hand designer dresses to do something good for the planet, giving clothes a second life instead of making more. The deeper I went, the more I saw the fashion industry’s dark side—how it manipulates us, especially women, through magazines, ads, social media … making us feel like we need to buy something to be someone.
So the idea came: what if we turned these designer dresses into art? Into protest? Into stories? With the help of Di Milstein, we started meeting artists, and they each added something of themselves to a dress. No rules, just expression.”
This little booklet showcases the best designs and will inspire fashion students, desingers, and community clothing and fabric projects.
GBP 7.50. 24 pp. ISBN: 978-1-9164918-9-2
“When trying to explain something, I found that I understood it better myself only after I had explained it to others”
How a Book Comes to Life
Coming soon …. a samll scene from Miss Smith’s coffee table book
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The Rural Planning Handbook aims to provide a basic introduction to more or less everything that someone wanting to live a modest, sustainable, land-based existence in the English/British countryside might need to know about the planning system.
It is designed to help small farmers, smallholders, forestry workers, permaculturists, low impact builders, caravan dwellers and low income people facing planning applications, appeals and enforcement on land in the countryside where they live or work.
You can use it to do your own planning — or else to check up that your planning consultant is on the ball. More info here: https://tlio.org.uk/rural-planning-handbook/
ISBN: 978-1-9164918-0-9 £25
A breath of fresh air, the ordinary becomes extraordinary seen through the wild imagination of Diana Milstein.
The complete works (well, more may come, you never know) and some backstory snippets, of Glastonbury Town’s Miss Smith.
ISBN: 978-1-9164918 £25
Craft activities, stories and themed play for Reception and Key Stages 1 & 2
Set out in weekly Activity Plans, the book provide detailed guidance, including learning goals, a step-by-step lesson plan, ‘tools and materials’, and an outline risk assessment. The 52 plans in Forest School Activities for the Primary Setting are accompanied by seasonal and theme-linked stories to support imaginative play and to contextualise the activity for its audience.
ISBN: 978-1916491878
£25
107 Lesson Plans with Activities, Projects and Outdoor Adventures for Key Stage 3 & 4
This is the second edition of our activities for children and young people aged 11 – 16 and contains over 100 activity plans, together with explanatory diagrams and photographs. Many of the activities in this book are intended for half day sessions. There are also projects that require several sessions to complete.
ISBN: 9781916491816
£25
Postcard vignettes from the days of Covid Lockdown.
ISBN: 9781916491823
£9.99
July 16, 2025
Postcard vignettes from the days of Covid Lockdown.
ISBN: 9781916491847
£9.99
New release
This is the story of an ordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. A vivid and entertaining picture of everyday life before, during and after the 1917 Russian revolution.
Woven into this astonishing account are factual observations accompanying hardly known historical events, such as the construction and development of Norilsk, a ‘secret’ city in the heart of a Siberian gulag.
The Memoirs of Maria Doroshinskaya form an important contribution to 20th century social history, speaking of, and for, millions of ordinary citizens, caught up in great cycles of change. It is both fascinating autobiography, and simple narrative which evokes the style and content of epic Russian literature.
ISBN: 978-1-9164918-8-5
GBP 14.99
“reading is a marvelously noble and transcendent chimera“
The Magic of the Book, an essay by Hermann Hesse, (1930)
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