great books for Old Stylers

tom_and_barbara_good

I don't know if these have been mentioned before but they are true O/S books - Hovel in the Hills, Kitchen in the Hills, Garden in the Hills by Elizabeth West.

She moved from Bristol with her husband to a remote run down wrecked cottage in North Wales and set about being self sufficient in the 1960's. She writes beautifully about the wind turbine, Charlie, the garden, the weeds, the floods, how they made money and how they lost it sometimes too. She went on to write a cookery book, Kitchen in the Hills which is full of cheap but delicious homemade food using ingredients that she grew and found in the wild - she was miles from a shop, most of the walking was cross-country. I haven't seen Garden in the Hills yet but it's one that I'm looking out for.

frosty

Hi, are these books still in print or do you have to look around the second hand book shops? they sound like books I would enjoy reading.

tom_and_barbara_good

I found mine in a charity shop, they are both little paperbacks and out of print by now I expect

Chipps

Hi,
Yes, I think I mentioned Kitchen in the Hills in a thread on favourite OS cookery books. I got mine in a charity shop, too. I also managed to order Hovel in the Hills from the local library a couple or so years ago, because I wanted to read it once I had seen the cookery book.

squeaky

Aye, I think we have the kitchen in the hills somewhere listed. Could you post ISBN's to help people find them too, please, and when I catch up with the indexing the others can join our collection.

tom_and_barbara_good

Here's the Hovel number -055210907x and Kitchen - 0552120723
ive just had a quick squint on amazon, there are lots copies of hovel in the hills and garden in the hills. There are 6 copies of kitchen in the hills starting at just £21.00!!!

Chipps

Kitchen in the Hills: ISBN 0-552-12072-3
Published by Corgi in 1981

squeaky

Thanks both

sal

Back to the top to let anyone interested know that there's a copy of Hovel in the Hills on https://www.greenmetropolis.com

sal

jcr16

that book sounds interesting , have just looked on ebay for kitchen in the hills but nothing. maybe i might become a member of the library.

Bathsheba

Try www. abebooks.com - links to secondhand booksellers all over the country. I've just checked "Hovel in the Hills" and there are loads of copies on sale - cheapest at the moment appears to be $1 (i.e. 57p), plus postage.