Sally Coulthard
Bestselling author and columnist Sally Coulthard has spent the last two decades writing about her favourite things – nature, history and craft. Many of her books delve into the traditions of rural life.
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Biography
Bestselling author and columnist Sally Coulthard has spent the last two decades writing about her favourite things – nature, history and craft. Many of her books delve into the traditions of rural life – from artisans to agriculture – the people, plants and creatures who make the countryside tick. Sally’s work often weaves together different disciplines, pulling threads from social history, anthropology, archaeology, design, and nature writing to bring her diverse subjects to life.
‘Sally Coulthard is cheerful and informative company on every leaf of this charming book’ The Spectator, reviewing The Apple - a Delicious History.
After studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford, and a brief stint working in factual television production, Sally moved back to her beloved Yorkshire, married a gardener and set up a smallholding; it’s from there, surrounded by her family and other animals, that Sally writes from a shed in the old orchard. Her books have covered a wide range of themes – from native bees and hedgehogs to folklore and the history of rural buildings. The countryside remains a constant source of inspiration – whether it’s barn owls or earthworms – and many of Sally’s books share her love of native wildlife and sustainable living.
Sally also writes a column for Country Living magazine, A Good Life, in which she reveals the triumphs and disasters of growing her own fruit and vegetables, and keeping an unruly gaggle of livestock including Soay sheep, runner ducks and hens.
Waterstones named A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE IN 100 OBJECTS one of the best Nature Writing books of 2024.
Sally has further titles scheduled for 2025.
‘Sally Coulthard has a wonderful talent. She takes everyday items – plants, food, buildings, animals – and through the course of a book demonstrates just how wonderful, how interesting they can be. It is ‘the history of things’ taken to the next level, where microhistories are unpacked and extended to reveal not just the story of the object in question but the history of us and our world.’ gethistory.co.uk
Books
Sally's recent books include:
