Sunday book review – Cry of the Wild by Charles Foster

Charles Foster’s previous book, The Screaming Sky (reviewed here)  was so good that I made it one of my books of 2021 (click here) and that made me keen to read this book.  I wasn’t at all disappointed but Cry of the Wild is a very different book and may not be to everyone’s taste…

Bank Holiday Monday book review – The Vegan Gardener

  I’m not a vegan and I am a pretty unambitious gardener but I got something from this book.  It’s a good introduction to gardening and the vegan bit is rather incidental to most of the book so don’t let that put you off if you have eaten  steak tartare recently. As with many gardening…

Sunday book review – Traffication by Paul Donald

This is a very good book. It will be one of the books of the year for those interested in wildlife and wildlife conservation – perhaps THE book of the year.  And that’s because it is very well-written, pretty important and deals with what is a largely novel subject to most potential readers. I recommend…

Sunday book review – Reconnection by Miles Richardson

This is a book of three parts: our broken relationship with nature; the benefits of connecting with nature; and how to fix things. Each is an interesting look at the issues and the author brings a lot of his own thoughts and experiences into the book, as well as the studies and evidence from academia….