However Robert Macfarlane chose to follow his loose trilogy of books about landscape, he could expect to have readers waiting and ready to order. The latest book, Landmarks, is not due to be published until March, but there’s now a teasing summary on Penguin’s blog from one of the few people who has already read it: Simon Prosser, publishing director of Hamish Hamilton, which published Macfarlane’s last book, The Old Ways, in hardback.