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James Rebanks

Praise for The Place of Tides

Humane, beautifully paced, gentle, and strangely compelling, The Place of Tides feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now

George Saunders

A magnificent book -- wonderfully unlike any other. The Place of Tides is big-hearted and transporting, a quietly gripping reckoning with self-sufficiency and interdependence, with the lives that make us a ...

Philip Gourevitch

James Rebanks has done a miraculous thing. He takes the reader with him to a stark, remote island on the strangest mission in the toughest circumstances and makes you feel like you’re coming home. A profound, tra ...

Isabella Tree

Humane, beautifully paced, gentle, and strangely compelling, The Place of Tides feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now

George Saunders

A magnificent book -- wonderfully unlike any other. The Place of Tides is big-hearted and transporting, a quietly gripping reckoning with self-sufficiency and interdependence, with the lives that make us a ...

Philip Gourevitch

James Rebanks has done a miraculous thing. He takes the reader with him to a stark, remote island on the strangest mission in the toughest circumstances and makes you feel like you’re coming home. A profound, tra ...

Isabella Tree

Humane, beautifully paced, gentle, and strangely compelling, The Place of Tides feels like, not only a modern classic, but one we very much need right now

George Saunders

A magnificent book -- wonderfully unlike any other. The Place of Tides is big-hearted and transporting, a quietly gripping reckoning with self-sufficiency and interdependence, with the lives that make us a ...

Philip Gourevitch

James Rebanks has done a miraculous thing. He takes the reader with him to a stark, remote island on the strangest mission in the toughest circumstances and makes you feel like you’re coming home. A profound, tra ...

Isabella Tree

Books by James Rebanks

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Articles featuring James Rebanks

‘Don’t give up on us’: James Rebanks on the future of farming – and how he saved his land

‘Don’t give up on us’: James Rebanks on the future of farming – and how he saved his land

James Rebanks shot to fame when the world fell in love with his farm. Now he’s written about his fight to turn it around. We travel to the Lake District to discuss English Pastoral, already being hailed as one of the most important books of the year.
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