James Rebanks
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Have a great 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Have a great 2026.
Thank you
Book 6 - The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
What should be the simple account of a season with one of the last "duck women" of Norway is transformed into a mesmerising, expansive, addictive read by James' humanity and compassion. Spellbinding.
An early contender for book of the year. Read it.
What should be the simple account of a season with one of the last "duck women" of Norway is transformed into a mesmerising, expansive, addictive read by James' humanity and compassion. Spellbinding.
An early contender for book of the year. Read it.
December 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thank you
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26 books finished this year, which is not a bad score at all.
Book of the Year has to be this one - The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Honourable mentions go to The Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social and The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Any other year they would have won.
Book of the Year has to be this one - The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Honourable mentions go to The Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social and The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Any other year they would have won.
Book 6 - The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
What should be the simple account of a season with one of the last "duck women" of Norway is transformed into a mesmerising, expansive, addictive read by James' humanity and compassion. Spellbinding.
An early contender for book of the year. Read it.
What should be the simple account of a season with one of the last "duck women" of Norway is transformed into a mesmerising, expansive, addictive read by James' humanity and compassion. Spellbinding.
An early contender for book of the year. Read it.
December 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
26 books finished this year, which is not a bad score at all.
Book of the Year has to be this one - The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Honourable mentions go to The Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social and The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Any other year they would have won.
Book of the Year has to be this one - The Place of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Honourable mentions go to The Bone Ships by @rjbarker.bsky.social and The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. Any other year they would have won.
Thank you to everyone who has bought this book.
Thrilled it has become a bestseller and found so much love.
Take care folks.
Thrilled it has become a bestseller and found so much love.
Take care folks.
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thank you to everyone who has bought this book.
Thrilled it has become a bestseller and found so much love.
Take care folks.
Thrilled it has become a bestseller and found so much love.
Take care folks.
New ‘Maximus’ bull arrived today
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New ‘Maximus’ bull arrived today
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This long interview on the state of farming and our food system with @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is really interesting. The bit from about 45 minutes in especially so.
Radical with Amol Rajan - Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks) - BBC Sounds
James Rebanks on how to build a secure, sustainable and healthy food system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This long interview on the state of farming and our food system with @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is really interesting. The bit from about 45 minutes in especially so.
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Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just finished reading @herdyshepherd.bsky.social "The Place of Tides". A beautiful book, but now sat watching the rain streaming down the window as tears stream down my face asking myself if I'm making any kind of positive difference to the world, however small.
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this wide-ranging conversation is oh so good. Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is able with great, grounded eloquence to say it as it is. If You think #wendellberry is good - listen to this. Not sure about everything in Rajan’s concluding summary but generally good.
Radical with Amol Rajan - Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks) - BBC Sounds
James Rebanks on how to build a secure, sustainable and healthy food system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this wide-ranging conversation is oh so good. Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is able with great, grounded eloquence to say it as it is. If You think #wendellberry is good - listen to this. Not sure about everything in Rajan’s concluding summary but generally good.
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🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan.
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Read the reports:
➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications...
➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
One of the things people don’t realise is that only about 15% (at most) of food price paid at the till goes to the farmer in the most ‘advanced’ versions of this food system
There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour
There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour
“92% of [UK] farmers think the greatest threat to the long-term growth of British farming is the government.” While farmers go bankrupt, “Food prices have risen by around 37% in the last five years.” Who is this serving? Without small farmers, we have no food, no nature & environment, no security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of the things people don’t realise is that only about 15% (at most) of food price paid at the till goes to the farmer in the most ‘advanced’ versions of this food system
There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour
There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour
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“92% of [UK] farmers think the greatest threat to the long-term growth of British farming is the government.” While farmers go bankrupt, “Food prices have risen by around 37% in the last five years.” Who is this serving? Without small farmers, we have no food, no nature & environment, no security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“92% of [UK] farmers think the greatest threat to the long-term growth of British farming is the government.” While farmers go bankrupt, “Food prices have risen by around 37% in the last five years.” Who is this serving? Without small farmers, we have no food, no nature & environment, no security.
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Just finished reading English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
An absolute must read for anyone managing land or involved in ecology in the UK. I was blown away by the honesty & pragmatism in this book.
#booksky
1/3
An absolute must read for anyone managing land or involved in ecology in the UK. I was blown away by the honesty & pragmatism in this book.
#booksky
1/3
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Just finished reading English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
An absolute must read for anyone managing land or involved in ecology in the UK. I was blown away by the honesty & pragmatism in this book.
#booksky
1/3
An absolute must read for anyone managing land or involved in ecology in the UK. I was blown away by the honesty & pragmatism in this book.
#booksky
1/3
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On today's new Little Atoms podcast, James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd.bsky.social) on his latest book The Place of Tides, out now in paperback from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
Little Atoms 974 - James Rebanks' The Place of Tides | Little Atoms
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October 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On today's new Little Atoms podcast, James Rebanks (@herdyshepherd.bsky.social) on his latest book The Place of Tides, out now in paperback from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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Another beautifully written book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. A great relief from all the trumpishness, and a joy to read.
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Another beautifully written book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social. A great relief from all the trumpishness, and a joy to read.
So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social
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Finished... like all the best non-fiction, it's about so much more than its subject - it's made me think about legacy, loss and resilience and how individuals can make a difference to the world.
A wonderful book... even though it put a little dust in my eye...
Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
A wonderful book... even though it put a little dust in my eye...
Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Finished... like all the best non-fiction, it's about so much more than its subject - it's made me think about legacy, loss and resilience and how individuals can make a difference to the world.
A wonderful book... even though it put a little dust in my eye...
Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
A wonderful book... even though it put a little dust in my eye...
Thank you @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Just one more calf due this year
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just one more calf due this year
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Birthday on the boat this morning and very pleased with my present from Liz.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Birthday on the boat this morning and very pleased with my present from Liz.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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This is a truly life-affirming book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Read it and you’ll discover a remarkable culture, a remarkable place and most of all a remarkable person.
Read it and you’ll discover a remarkable culture, a remarkable place and most of all a remarkable person.
September 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is a truly life-affirming book by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Read it and you’ll discover a remarkable culture, a remarkable place and most of all a remarkable person.
Read it and you’ll discover a remarkable culture, a remarkable place and most of all a remarkable person.
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The second of the short animations made by the amazing Gabriella Marsh for The Place of Tides, with excerpts read by the equally amazing (!) author, James Rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be with us at Stroud’s Sub Rooms on 18th September.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be with us at Stroud’s Sub Rooms on 18th September.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
August 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The second of the short animations made by the amazing Gabriella Marsh for The Place of Tides, with excerpts read by the equally amazing (!) author, James Rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be with us at Stroud’s Sub Rooms on 18th September.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be with us at Stroud’s Sub Rooms on 18th September.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
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‘The island was waiting for us to leave… and now I was ready to go home again. Like Anna I had a place to care for, and it was time to go back and do that’
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be in Stroud next month. Thanks to Gabriella Marsh.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be in Stroud next month. Thanks to Gabriella Marsh.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
August 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
‘The island was waiting for us to leave… and now I was ready to go home again. Like Anna I had a place to care for, and it was time to go back and do that’
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be in Stroud next month. Thanks to Gabriella Marsh.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social will be in Stroud next month. Thanks to Gabriella Marsh.
Info and tickets here: ylbevent.link/rebanks.