Get yourself a bargain with this fantastic two-book bundle: The Farm Shop Guide (2024) and The Coastal Café Guide (2024). Between these two books, you’ll be able to find memorable places to eat around the coast, plus farm-fresh food, lovely cafés, and eating experiences at farm shops around Britain. Please see our delivery note below.
Here’s a little bit more about each book:
The Farm Shop Guide (edition 1, new for 2024) is the ideal food, travel and farm café guide for anyone who loves fresh food, farm-to-fork experiences, and farm-focused events and activities. If you love farm-fresh food and local flavours and are keen to shop seasonally and avoid flown-in food (while supporting Britain’s farmers and growers), this is the book for you. The Farm Shop Guide will help you find farm-fresh food and independent farm shops and cafés across Britain: perfect places for a weekly shop, an eat-out treat, or a family-friendly day trip. In the book you’ll find:
- First-rate farm shops, cafés and restaurants
- Farmers’ Markets and Food Festivals
- Dog-friendly and family-friendly places to stop, eat and shop
- Places with EV chargers for your vehicles
- PYO (pick-your-own) fruit, veg, flowers, Christmas trees, and pumpkin places
- Striking full-colour maps and full-page features per venue
- Spotlights on food, farming, and environmental charities including: Pasture for Life, the Sustainable Food Trust, Buglife, RSPB Fair to Nature, the Permaculture Association, Community Supported Agriculture, and the Soil Association.
To find tasty local produce and avoid bland flown-in food, buy The Farm Shop Guide today. It’s the perfect gift for your food-loving friends and anyone who likes to know where their food really comes from.
The Coastal Café Guide (new for 2024) is the ideal travel and café guide for anyone who loves food and loves the coast. An Amazon No #1 Hot New Release in July 2024, it’s also been featured in The Times Weekend, The Sun, and The Scotsman. It’s the perfect gift for beach lovers, coast-path walkers, surfers, paddle-boarders, seafood fans, water sports enthusiasts, holidaymakers, and those travelling with families and dogs. It’s from Printslinger, publisher of 2023’s Amazon #1 bestseller, The Extra Mile: Delicious Alternatives to Motorway Services (4th ed). Inside The Coastal Café Guide, find:
- Around 150 cafés, restaurants, beach bars, seafood cabins, and pubs, on or near the coast
- Dog-friendly and family-friendly places to eat, often with a sea view
- 10 striking regional maps
- Independent, smaller places to eat
- Features on a dozen marine- and coast-relevant charities including Surfers Against Sewage
- Low food miles, local food places to help you support local food businesses
- 256pp pages with full-colour photography throughout
- Places in England, Scotland and Wales (inc. Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Isle of Skye)
This new 2024 guide is a carbon-neutral certified book with a foreword from the RNLI. The Coastal Café Guide also highlights the work of 12 coast and marine-focused charities and organisations. These include the RNLI, Surfers Against Sewage, Ramblers (and the England Coast Path), The Marine Conservation Society, The Marine Stewardship Council, Open Seas, The Wave Project, The John Muir Trust, National Trust for Scotland, The Outdoor Swimming Society, City to Sea and The South West Coast Path Organisation. 1% of Printslinger’s income from this book will be donated to Surfers Against Sewage via Work for Good.
Delivery note
At this time of year, orders can take at least five full working days to arrive. Our last order date for a pre-Christmas delivery (hoped for and likely, but not guaranteed) is 13 December. Bookshops and other online sellers may offer next-day delivery if ordering after this date. Happy Christmas and long live real books!
