From The Art of Fire to The Little Book of Building Fires, retailers are seeing strong sales of practical guides to ancient ‘ur-skills’ ahead of the festive season
Like anyone holding a large store of flammable material, booksellers and publishers are often cautious of fire. But this winter they’re hoping to set tills ablaze with a stack of books about starting fires which is being described as the natural progression from last year’s candle-filled hygge trend.
From Daniel Hume’s The Art of Fire to Sally Coulthard’s The Little Book of Building Fires and Paul Heiney’s Playing With Fire, all out this winter, bookshops are fast filling up with this latest craze. New titles such as Bear Grylls’s How to Stay Alive (a “survival guide for any situation”), David Scarfe’s The Wild Book (“outdoor activities to unleash your inner child”), and Daniel Beard’s Do It Yourself Bushcraft also feed into a trend that publishers say was sparked by the surprise success of Lars Mytting’s guide to chopping and stacking wood, Norwegian Wood.
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