For several years, Totnes writer and Longmarsh Press founder Bob Mann has given to friends and family a … Read More

An award-winning poet in the National Poetry Competition, now living in Totnes, Devon, John Lancaster’s fifth collection is rooted in his home territory of Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire … Read more

Sam Richards’ long-awaited history of Dartington College covers the whole story of the ‘Dartington experiment,’ from the estate’s purchase by the Elmhirsts in 1925 to the college’s closure in 2010. Based on extensive interviews and research, it is the definitive account of what made the college … Read more

‘I see the world in fragments – like pieces of a puzzle I fit together. The sky, the earth, the sea. The places I go. The faces of the people. Fragments. Some days they come together, they fit in place, they fix. The picture is there and whole. Some days. Some days, the fragments are all that I have …  Read more

Berry Pomeroy Castle, near Totnes, is widely known as one of the most haunted ruins in England. In this book, Bob Mann explores its influence on the mind and imagination, and introduces new poems and stories inspired by it, from some of the finest writers working in the South West …   Read more

In Ielfstan’s Place Richard Girling recreates the thousands of years of life in and around the village from the time of the earliest human inhabitants of the area to the early twentieth century, through a connected sequence of short stories …  Read more

Green Country – Vian Smith’s Dartmoor and South Devon is a selection of extracts from Portrait of Dartmoor and many of his shorter writings, including articles, stories and prose sketches, covering all aspects of the moor and its life …  Read more