Category: Book review

I wrote the foreword for this book (the author must have caught me on a good day) but it was published last year so I have been rather dilatory in giving it the little breath of publicity here that it most certainly deserves. The title is self-explanatory but few vaguely similar regional books use the…

This is a very interesting book about a very few species and a very good New Naturalist. The New Naturalist series put out some rather unattractive books a while ago with terribly reproduced and somewhat irrelevant images. Those days have certainly passed. This is a well-produced volume with good photographs, graphs and figures. The author…

Another novel about the murky upland world of somewhere near you? Badgers, grouse moors, lords, rich businessmen, snares, machetes, rifles, Hen Harriers, modern slavery and so much more. It’s a good follow-up to Bob’s previous novel Snared (see review here). If you enjoyed Snared then I’m sure you’ll enjoy this too. And, just like Snared,…

What a book! I have devoured this book since it arrived a few days ago;  using early morning writing time to read it, muting the television commentary of the Olympics so that I could read in peace (and thus missing some events I wanted to watch) and snatching moments here and there. It’s a great…

An interesting read – perhaps more so for those of us who have lived through the whole of this period than youngsters – but maybe not. I got on much better with this book from the moment I decided not to take it too seriously but just enjoy the ride. There is something a bit…