Richard Hawking

Richard Hawking’s interest in farming and the countryside stems from growing up on a 70-acre mixed method farm in south west England. In 2019, Crowood published At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside, Hawking’s monograph on Adrian Bell. Between 2021 and 2024 Slightly Foxed published A Countryman’s Notebook Quartet, a new collection of Bell’s essays introduced and selected by Hawking. He is currently working on the American naturalist and photographer Edwin Way Teale: an article about Teale's Springtime in Britain (1970) will be published later this year.