Midwinter is here and we are drawing to a close on our 45th anniversary year. Late autumn and early winter has been very wet and mild, but we take solace at the solstice, safe in the knowledge that the light will start to return. This festive season has been extra...

2025 marks the 45th anniversary of Brambly Hedge. The first four books, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Story all published in September 1980. After a feature article in the  Sunday Times, the books had to be reprinted due to demand and the phone rang off the hook...

The positive reception of the first Four Seasons of the Brambly Hedge book series had taken Jill by surprise in the early eighties, and it soon became clear that she would not be putting down her trusty brown pen and extensive range of paintbrushes any time soon. She...