This novel is set on the fictional Scottish island of Morvan and set amongst the hill walkers and shooting estate folk who enjoy this landscape. It’s a good yarn and I enjoyed reading it. When I tell you that the land owner is called Lord Purdey and he has a couple of unsympathetic criminal gamekeepers,…
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Stephen Moss’s 2019 Round-up of Nature books.
Stephen Moss has written a round-up of nature books for many years and this is the second year when it has appeared here on this blog. Stephen is course leader of the MA Travel & Nature Writing at Bath Spa University. His latest book, The Twelve Birds of Christmas, is published by Square Peg (£12.99)….
Sunday book review – Letters to the Earth edited by Anna Hope, Jo McInnes and Kay Michael
This book is cheap – so it’s not a big risk to buy one! And all royalties go to support creative campaigning for environmental justice. It’s an anthology of writing (poems and short essays) about the environmental state we’re in organised in sections: Love, Loss, Emergence, Hope and Action, and with a foreword by Emma…
Sunday book review – Grassland plants of the British and Irish lowlands by Peter Stroh et al.
I’m no botanist, so for all I know this book could be riddled with awful errors, but it is a lovely, lovely book. In a 400-page book, 300 of the pages are given over to about 100 species accounts; each with a distribution map, a photograph of the species, a photograph of the habitat and…
Sunday book review – Tracking the Highland Tiger by Marianne Taylor
This is a well-written book and there is much to be enjoyed within its pages. If I am ever on a long coach ride from Victoria coach station (they do crop up in the book) and find myself sitting next to the author I feel we could have a good chat. There is lots of…