Books

Four books, the same dry year looked at from different angles.

What do you do once the emergency’s over and the ground’s still hard? Not much, it turns out. You keep going and you write some of it down.

Cover of Ten Dry Years by Tom Ashcroft
Memoir

Ten Dry Years

The memoir. A year without rain, told the way it actually happened — one paddock, one bad decision and one very patient dog at a time.

Cover of Fence Lines by Tom Ashcroft
Essays

Fence Lines

Short essays on boundaries, both the wire kind and the other kind. Some of them are about fences. Not all of them.

Cover of The Weather Book by Tom Ashcroft
 

The Weather Book

A season-by-season account of watching the sky for a living, and what it does to a person’s patience.

Cover of Small Rain by Tom Ashcroft
 

Small Rain

The smaller pieces — a few pages each, for the days that only had a few pages in them.

Titles and dates fictional · Bulk and translation rights: rights@tomashcroft.example
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