Shot for a White-Faced Deer: Life at the New Forest Edge, 1837-1914 by Stephen Ings. This eloquent and finely observed social history charts the lives of a rural population whose horizons were defined by the Hampshire and Wiltshire countryside between Salisbury, Romsey and Fordingbridge, including the villages of Bramshaw, Nomansland, Plaitford, Landford, Whiteparish, Redlynch, Lockerley, West and East Tytherley. Their unassuming stories of joy and celebration, mingled with sadness and poverty, are told with great insight and sympathy, and make a significant contribution to our understanding of the Victorian and Edwardian world so wholly removed from our own. It is a profoundly moving and sensitive account, expertly told in the finest tradition of English country writing.

(Hobnob Press 2010. ISBN 978-1-906978-00-6. Paperback. 222p.)