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224 pages • 224 illustrations including 220 in colour • 32,000 words • Hardback • 245mm x 175mm • 170gsm paper • ISBN 978-0-9568464-4-0 • RRP£20.00

MY DEVONSHIRE YEAR An Illustrated Journal of the Jurassic Coast & Countryside by Margaret I. Pogson A beautifully illustrated journal has been discovered. It was originally written and painted to celebrate the beauty of Devonshire. When Margaret Pogson feared she would have to move far away and lose her beloved West Country home, she decided to write this journal as a permanent record of her love of Devon. She captured a whole year in words and pictures and it eventually took her six years to complete the detailed work. The journal then remained hidden for thirty years. As the delicate watercolours had been concealed for decades they are as fresh today as the day they were painted. My Devonshire Year is an evocative account of Margaret Pogson’s timeless observations of the natural history along the coastline and countryside of Devon’s Jurassic Coast. Margaret’s charming watercolours feature fishing boats on the seashore, winding country lanes, green fields and red cliffs.

Inspired by nature, her seasonal illustrations of the plants and wild flowers in the meadows and hedgerows are particularly beautiful.

The book is a remarkable record of what the Jurassic coast and countryside looked like in 1979 long before it was designated as a World Heritage Coast. It is a time capsule of the unspoilt cliffs and beaches before recent erosion and cliff falls have changed its appearance for ever.

Join Margaret on her gentle journey through the year and enjoy her enchanting portrait of the life she observed around her

It is a calm and peaceful world that evokes the natural beauty of Devon. Her personal journal of the shifting seasons is a beautiful record of another time, another place….

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EVERYONE LOVES MY DEVONSHIRE YEAR…!

“My Devonshire Year is not only well written and wonderfully illustrated; it provides an important historical record of a Devon part of which is vanishing fast. This is a book to read slowly; to dip in and out of and to savour and to read with the seasons. It is a book for the Devon connoisseur and the Devon beginner and celebrates an endangered way of life. It is full of colour and of wisdom. It is, quite simply, a delight.” David Fursdon DL, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Devon

“A labour of love - a handwritten diary full of beautiful watercolour images of Devon's flora and fauna…. Laura Dale, Devon Life

“A gift for being able to paint pictures in words…the book is beautifully illustrated but the words and the way she describes things are beautiful in their own way…it really is fantastic…She has an understanding of the natural world around her…..a lovely piece of work.” Rick Edwards, BBC Radio Devon

“My Devonshire Year is, in my opinion, an altogether more relevant book to our lives than Country Diary, being a wonderfully evocative celebration of Devonshire, written within our lifetime. If it is as popular as I predict then this new book is heading for the Bestseller Lists before too long.” Robert Jarman, Editor, Vintage Magazine

“What a heart-warming tale…Book of the year…a remarkable, and very charming, illustrated diary of a year in the Devon countryside” Becky Sheaves, Editor, West magazine, Western Morning News on Sunday

“My Devonshire Year, a book celebrating the beauty of our coastline and countryside….the book that brings Devon’s coastline to life.” Karen Perrow, Dartmouth Chronicle/Kingsbridge & Salcombe Gazette

“A beautiful insight into this glorious county , a delight” Caroline Quentin, Actress

“Oh it is beautiful! I started to read it in bed and it actually brought tears to my eyes! It made me yearn for my childhood in gentler times.
The exquisite illustrations reminded me of the Sundays spent with my father and brother walking through the sublime Devon coast and countryside. The thrill of seeing the flowers he'd pointed out and whose names I had forgotten …wonderful names like Creeping Cinquefoil and Streaked Cranesbill! The rituals of picking snowdrops, primroses, pussy willow catkins and bluebells …making sure we never took bulbs and leaving plenty for others to enjoy. Collecting conkers sweet chestnuts and beech nuts shells and mushrooms . Hearing the plaintive cry of curlew and the tell -tale drilling of a distant Woodpecker. It is so easy to forget these simple treasures when you live in this glorious county …thank you Margaret for reminding me!” Judi Spiers, Broadcaster