Category: Book review

James Rebanks’s earlier book, The Shepherd’s Life (reviewed here), was a great read despite being very irritating in many places. I made it this blog’s book of the year in 2015 and, rather more importantly for the author and publisher, it was a best-seller. This book is less irritating but is still a great read….

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…

Derek Gow is sometimes described as a force of nature, and this book demonstrates that he most certainly is a force for nature. It’s a good read – very entertaining, very informative and the views of someone who knows what’s what. It is an entertaining book – there are lots of stories about who did…

Helen Pilcher writes with wit and clarity about life on Earth. This is a very good book, as was her previous book Bring Back the King (reviewed here). I think this one slightly has the edge but I’m glad to have both on my bookshelves and embedded in my thoughts. When I say that she…