{"product_id":"ring-the-hill-h-b-w26","title":"Tom Cox: Ring the Hill [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps' Stephen Fry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging friend. Tom Cox brings magic to the most mundane of subjects' Marian Keyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more' John Lewis-Stempel, author of \u003ci\u003eMeadowland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly inside you, in a cupboard marked 'Quite A Lot Of Hills' where it makes its infinitesimal mark on who you are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRing the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England. Each chapter takes a type of hill - whether it's a knoll, cap, cliff, tor or even a mere bump - as a starting point for one of Tom's characteristically unpredictable and wide-ranging explorations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom's lyrical, candid prose roams from an intimate relationship with a particular cove on the south coast, to meditations on his great-grandmother and a lesson on what goes into the mapping of hills themselves. Because a good walk in the hills is never just about the hills: you never know where it might lead.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cox, Tom","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42324633354425,"sku":"9781783528356","price":21.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/cox-tom-ring-the-hill-h-b-w26-9781783528356-32643559882937.jpg?v=1656102242","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/ring-the-hill-h-b-w26","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}