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Angela Harding Seasonal Quartet Boxset

Includes Spring Unfurled, Summer’s Hum, Falling into Autumn and Winter’s Song
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The complete seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding, now available in a beautifully designed boxset. This stunning collection is a perfect gift for nature-lovers, with a book for every season: Spring Unfurled, Summer's Hum, Falling into Autumn, and Winter's Song. The books that... Read More
Format: Multiple-component retail product
$13000

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The complete seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding, packed in a gorgeous box. This stunning set contains a book for every season: Spring Unfurled, Summer's Hum, Falling into Autumn and Winter's Song.

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The complete seasonal quartet from beloved printmaker and illustrator Angela Harding, now available in a beautifully designed boxset. This stunning collection is a perfect gift for nature-lovers, with a book for every season: Spring Unfurled, Summer's Hum, Falling into Autumn, and Winter's Song.

The books that make up this pocket-sized series take readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela's observations as the nature around her transforms and evolves over the course of a year. Taking in landscapes across the UK including views from her home studio in Rutland, to the Scottish wilderness, via the low-lying marshlands of Suffolk and the windswept hills of Yorkshire, the beautiful illustrations and evocative imagery of the prose make this the perfect book for nature lovers and art lovers everywhere.

Each title features over thirty of Angela Harding's favourite prints alongside observations taken from her books A Year Unfolding, Wild Light, and Still Waters & Wild Waves. These short, small books in this seasonal collection are a beautiful new way to enjoy Angela's work and celebrate nature and wildlife across the UK at all times of year.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408725009

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Multiple-component retail product

Date Published: 04 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sphere

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 52.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 1140g

About the Author

Angela Harding lives in the small county of Rutland and works out of the studio at the bottom of her garden in the village of Wing.

Angela has worked on the covers for a number of books: including P D James, Ted Hughes, Katya Balen and James Rebanks. Her children's book RSPB Birds by Miranda Krestovnikoff was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge prize. Her most recent children's book Wilding, by Isabella Tree, is an illustrated adaptation of the bestselling book of the name. Other recent publications include Blossomise by Simon Armitage, a Sunday Times bestseller.

Angela has written and illustrated three books published by Little, Brown: A Year Unfolding, Wild Light and Still Waters & Wild Waves.

Angela's unique and distinct style has become instantly recognisable to nature lovers and book lovers alike, gaining her a huge number of fans who flock to buy her merchandise including calendars, cards, tea towels, totebags and jigsaws. She was the 2024 artist for the Books are my Bag tote bag.

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  • Falling into Autumn
    My encounters with nature are very personal. I am inspired by watching jays gathering acorns and hearing owls hooting. In the shady parts of my garden, ferns grow. In the springtime, the ferns unfurl their tight, rounded, bundled leaves into rich green fingers. By the autumn, these same leaves are starting to go brown at the edges. This seems to...
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  • Still Waters & Wild Waves
    One of Waterstones' Best Nature Books of the Year 2024 Featuring over 50 original illustrations of dramatic seascapes and reflective rivers, alongside photography of the stunning places that inspired the artwork, Angela Harding's beautiful new book captures the waters that move us. 'A blue-green sketchbook sits at the edge of my studio desk. It is covered in decorative paper that...
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  • Summer's Hum
    The wildflower bank outside my window hums and buzzes. At midday, the summer sun spreads the perfume of roses and honeysuckle to every corner. Summer is a time of changing colours and changing light. It is when the sharp acid green of spring growth deepens and darkens. Lengthening days and stronger light bring change to our garden; it is transformed...
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  • Wild Light
    With over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn."I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings, evenings or bright midday light changes the way we see the things around us. The bouncing light of a cloud-filled...
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  • A Year Unfolding
    A beautifully illustrated guide to nature through the seasons by much-loved printmaker Angela Harding. The cover of this stunning book has an exclusive triptych printed on the reverse - a perfect collector's item. This stunning work, the first book that is solely dedicated to Angela's art, is a celebration of her beautiful prints, and a glimpse into her detailed and...
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  • Winter's Song
    'When the snow falls quickly, it brings dramatic change. Hare, rabbit and bird tracks become visible in the lanes and fields.''When it snows, I am a child again. I must go out for a crunching, snowy walk, and experience the landscape transformed. It is a cliche to call it Narnia, but when the snow falls thickly it does bring dramatic...
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  • Spring Unfurled
    'Spring, at all its stages, has an energy that engages us with the outside world.' 'Seasonal change has always been a great inspiration for my artwork. I love the changing light that brings new colours and smells. The seasons are nature's clock, bringing birds from distant shores to nest and breed in our gardens. So it is hard to say...
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