Category: Book review

Let’s get my only gripe about this book out of the way – it’s a silly title which gives a slightly false impression of the contents. These are not ‘curious’ tales they are 101 quite finely honed essays about the interesting biology of species that you might well see if you were birding in East…

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…

  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…

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…

This is the tale of an almost 1000-mile walk from the southern edge of the New Forest to Cape Wrath by a fit 62-year-old who encounters landscapes, people and wildlife on his journey of 51 walking days.  It’s a good read and I enjoyed it very much. Quite honestly, the interactions with people, fellow walkers,…