Category: BOOK REVIEWS

The UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are 14 remnants of the British Empire which have the British monarch as their Head of State, depend on the UK for their defence and which all have coastlines. All are closer, geographically, to other sovereign nations than they are to the UK but all have strong cultural ties to…

I’ve sat in audiences and listened to David Attenborough, I’ve talked to him, briefly, with others, and, like you, I’ve watched him and listened to him on television. He once phoned me at the RSPB and as Claire, my PA, said ‘It’s David Attenborough on the phone’ my brain thought ‘But I need to be…

This is a charming book about a species that is being lost from our lives. I haven’t seen a live Hedgehog for several years and there aren’t many squashed on the roads around here these days. Friends and family send videos of hedgehogs if they come across one – this once common species is now…

You can’t go wrong if you slap a gorgeous Audubon on the front of your book and this Arctic Tern is one of my favourites (see p77 Remarkable Birds, which also has an Audubon on its cover). It’s a good start and there are more Audubons sprinkled through the 368 pages of this attractive and…

I have a pile of books to review as lots of publishers delayed publication until September and so there is now a flood. There will be two books reviewed on this blog on Sunday to enable me to keep my head above the rising tide; Dominic Couzens’s A Bird a Day and Hugh Warwick’s The…