Front cover of Ramsholt by Johnnie Shand Kydd, hardback

Ramsholt - Johnnie Shand Kydd

Johnnie Shand Kydd

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  • Pages · 160 pages, 78
  • Publication Date · 07/05/2026
  • Genre · Memoirs
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Here, a handful of buildings on the River Deben become a stage on which centuries�unfold:�church and quay, graveyard and marsh, the traces of smuggling, slavery, war and work lingering in the air. As Shand Kydd walks the familiar fifty-minute circuit with his lurcher, he encounters a landscape alive with memory - Suffolk Punches and Black Poplars, otters, barn owls and vanished nightingales - and haunted by the stories of his own family.�Ramsholt�is both love letter and lament, a powerful meditation on memory, nature, and the importance of home.

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