Seven Fables Dulverton

13/06/2026

This weekend's newsletter!
Sent with love from Exmoor Xx

This time last year we were focused on our Solstice launch for Wild Folk with Tamsin and Jackie, so by comparison this June feels positively mellow. Embracing the light evenings we have ventured out with simple picnics to swim and walk. Our first river swim was during that balmy heatwave, and the sh...

26/05/2026

What a beautiful start to May, and gently launch The Book of Birds with Jackie Morris!

Slow Loris

Let the Birds Sing...The Book of Birds - A Field Guide to Wonder & Loss, a celebration with Jackie MorrisMay has been a flurry of birds, a beat of heart, wing and song, celebrating The Book of Birds - A Field Guide to Wonder & Loss. Seven years in the making it was finally time for Jackie Morris and...

28/04/2026

Join us from the comfort of your own home for this FREE ONLINE EVENT with Jackie Morris to mark the imminent publication of her much anticipated collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, The Book of Birds - A Field Guide to Wonder & Loss.

For this unique event Seven Fables is delighted to be partnering with Stephen Sparks of POINT REYES BOOKS in California - our Zoom hosts for the evening.

Jackie will be in conversation with Davina Jelley of Seven Fables and there will be an opportunity for you to pose your own questions during the event.

Slow Loris

In Partnership with Point Reyes Books California

03/04/2026

April has arrived, which means it's not long until our first Wild Read of the year - our new look book club!

New reads, novel twist - same beautiful location! Do join us...

29/03/2026

Join us at silly o'clock to celebrate!

*SOLD OUT!*

Join Jackie Morris on International Dawn Chorus Day

29/03/2026

Not long now until THE BOOK OF BIRDS - A Field Guide to Wonder & Loss is published, the highly anticipated collaboration by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - the creators of The Lost Words.

We are thrilled to be hosting a very special event with Jackie to celebrate - a dawn chorus walk along the River Barle, followed by a hearty vegetarian breakfast and book signing at Mortimers.

Jackie is ‘…hoping for dipper, song thrush, kingfisher- but honestly, I will take what I am given in the thinning of the air.

Woodland, beside the Barle. There will be fresh green light through the leaves and the scent of spring.’

Tickets are available from our website - SOLD OUT

DAWN CHORUS WALK
Sunday 3rd May - International Dawn Chorus Day - do join us at silly o’clock!

28/03/2026

Last Saturday...

Spring Equinox 2026Sun blazing in the cool March air, dropping lazy moods and ‘tomorrow can wait’ tones, the wild readers gather for our first sojourn into Burridge Woods this year. In slow amble we snake up as the trail rises, dips and curves, nudging at the hill nape, bound for ‘The Den’. ...

18/03/2026

Stunning walk this morning to Dulverton’s alternative venue, The Den to check the route (and seating plan!) for our Wild Folk walkers this weekend.

We heard goldcrest, great tit, wren, blackbird, robin, chaffinch, blue tit, coal tit, woodpecker, raven and pheasant!

Also spotted our first brimstone butterfly of the year.

If you wish to join Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott in the woods of Dulverton, please book your place via the website.

The forecast looks similar to today’s sunshine - hurrah!

14/03/2026

Wild Folk Rises!

We do hope you are planning to join us next Saturday for either our morning book signing or the afternoon walk with Jackie and Tamsin to celebrate Wild Folk's reincarnation by Chelsea Green Publishing.

There are still tickets remaining if you have been looking to the sky before committing. The weather forecast looks promising - light cloud with a gentle breeze, 14°.

If it does decide to rain, we still plan to walk, and Jackie will read to us, so you needn't fear getting your book wet - Jackie's copy got drenched at the Summer Solstice! You are also invited to bring your Black Fox embroideries to work on surrounded by the trees of Burridge Woods.

Slow Loris Tamsin Abbott

27/02/2026

Last weekend's newsletter! Have a read....

Snowdrops spill the winter verges, under eaves and scrub edges, gloaming and radiant in salt-white clusters, rising in the scruffets and long forgotten stretches. Freshly starched ranks with hoods hanging low, nodding nobly from these cold, sodden soils, slight and tight as winter deepens and recoil...