Ring the Hill

''Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps'' - Stephen Fry 

''Sheer bloody genius . . . I loved it. Then I loved it more'' - John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowlands

A 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. Ring the Hill is 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. Tom''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.

• | Author: Tom Cox
• | Publisher: Swift Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781800756038
• | ISBN-10: 1800756038