#MeToo poetry anthology is out on March 8th (International Women’s Week) Edited by Deborah Alma – oh so skilfully – this is an extraordinary collection for so many reasons. There are many events around the UK on March 8th. And on… Here is one such event: at Stratford Literary Festival which sounds amazing! […]
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A request for your vote reminder! – BEYOND SPRING by Matthew Oates
Just a little reminder!! About the exciting news that not only is Beyond Spring by Matthew Oates a fabulous read; it is on the guardian’s Best Nature Books of 2017, AND shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile magazine awards !!! Please do vote – you can get a free sample PDF here if you would […]
Beyond Spring available as KINDLE edition: £4.99
Beyond Spring now available as Kindle edition: For details of book with link to buying kindle book – go here For a free sample PDF to see if you like it go here For ePub edition go here For paperback edition – here For limited edition hardback – here TO VOTE FOR BEYOND SPRING […]
Beyond Spring at discount price in celebration!!
Beyond Spring – Wanderings through Nature by Matthew Oates is one of 5 shortlisted books for the coveted COUNTRY BOOK OF THE YEAR – run by BBC Countryfile magazine. More details here In celebration of this – and also in the hope to improve the book’s chances of winning (as the winner is chosen by […]
Beyond Spring – shortlisted in BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards!
Matthew Oates’ magnificent book Beyond Spring – Wanderings through Nature is one of only five books that the judges of the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards have shortlisted – for their prestigious title of COUNTRY BOOK OF THE YEAR: The shortlisted books are: Country Book of the Year 2018 The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and […]
Countryfile Magazine Review for Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring
Fergus Collins, editor of the esteemed Countryfile Magazine has written the following review on Beyond Spring: Wanderings through Nature, by the wonderful Matthew Oates: Beyond Spring: Wanderings through Nature – Matthew Oates (Fair Acre Press, £10.99) Despite all the bad news about our natural world, naturalist Matthew Oates writes with welcome optimism, recalling a number […]
Looking ahead to 2018
A Happy New Year everyone! I do hope this finds you well, warm, and encouraged by the start of a new year x I just wanted to let you know a few things to expect from Fair Acre Press in 2018 – details will follow over the months. I am so delighted and excited about […]
2 of our books that will be out in 2018!
Keith Chandler’s poetry collection The Goldsmith’s Apprentice Go here to read more about it and read the wonderful endorsements from Prof. David Morley, and Jonathan Edwards. The book is out in April 2018 DIVERSIFLY – an anthology of Poetry and Art on Britain’s Urban Birds Go here to read more […]
Beyond Spring review: Bird Watching magazine
HERE IS A REVIEW IN BIRD WATCHING magazine December Issue, from its editor Matt Merritt – on BEYOND SPRING: Wanderings through Nature – Matthew Oates: “There’s something very pleasingly old-fashioned about this book, a chronicle of Matthew Oates’ wanderings through England and its nature. It’s a fact he acknowledges by regular reference to his predecessors, […]
Beyond Spring on the Guardian’s Best Nature Book of 2017 list!!
I am so happy to share this news… Stephen Moss who annually writes an article called The best nature books of 2017 has said this about Beyond Spring by Matthew Oates, and Fair Acre Press: Small, independent publishers such as Safe Haven continue to outperform in this field. Another example is Fair Acre, which persuaded […]

