What a book! I have devoured this book since it arrived a few days ago; using early morning writing time to read it, muting the television commentary of the Olympics so that I could read in peace (and thus missing some events I wanted to watch) and snatching moments here and there. It’s a great…
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Sunday book review – England’s Green by David Matless
An interesting read – perhaps more so for those of us who have lived through the whole of this period than youngsters – but maybe not. I got on much better with this book from the moment I decided not to take it too seriously but just enjoy the ride. There is something a bit…
Sunday book review – Birds of Louth by John Clarkson and Phil Espin
This is the second edition of the 2007 title. The poignant thing about this book is that the senior author, John Clarkson, passed away in 2023 and this edition thus stands as memorial to him as well as a fine book about one part of one English county. I used to think that Lincolnshire was…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 9 by John Page
John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field”. He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond the…
Guest blog – Killing the Bird that Lays the Golden Egg by Gill Lewis
Killing the Bird that Lays the Golden Egg Gill Lewis is a multi-award-winning children’s author and former vet. She writes stories about animals and our human relationship with the wild world. Her books have won the US Green Earth Book Award, the German Prize for Environmental Youth Literature, and she has been awarded the Little…