From Wales (and from Welsh) came a gem of a short novel – rooted in family history – about a self-sufficient rural way of life, as modernity encroaches with all its gifts and thefts: The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price (translated by Lloyd Jones; MacLehose, £10).
Gradually, Aidan and Andrew learn about each other's, and indeed their own, magical skills, and about the threat from a certain Mr O Brown, the ostentatious neighbour at nouveau Melstone Manor, who seems keen to encroach, with violence if necessary, upon Andrew's land.
Website addresses, mobile communities, networked societies are all physically rootless and as digital opinion-formers, full of regenerative value.As the city encroaches with increasing rates and rents, creatives are being forced to move on to sex up Peckham, Croydon or Margate.
Namibian rangelands are encroached with Acacia mellifera, partially resulting from a poor understanding of vegetation dynamics.
Supported by his four legged companion and what seemed to be his girlfriend, the officer continued to encroach with a British sense of imperialism.
For the person with encroaching dementia, the loss of autonomy can be devastating.
How, one wonders, would he have fared with encroaching old age?
Superintendent Paul Latshaw had been proposing another tee for a couple of years, but Nicklaus was concerned with encroaching on No.15.
Development is encroaching even here, with resurgent agricultural development destroying swaths of the restored habitat and clearing away regrown plant life.
