Category: Book review

  Alan Stewart MBE is a retired police inspector with a wealth of experience in investigating wildlife crime. This is his fourth book on the subject. Here is a quote from the author’s introduction ‘On driven grouse moors there is little evidence of change. While the licensing of shoots may help, the only real solution…

It is around now that this blog would normally list its books of the year, but this year you’ll have to wait until the very end of the year for that list. However, it is surely worth noting that this Christmas, and every other day from now on, there is quite a choice of books…

  This book is similar in some ways to that reviewed earlier this morning – this one is cheaper and better. Simon Willis chooses 30 species (eg Blue Tit, Lapwing) and groups of birds (eagles, flamingos) and tells us interesting things about them and about people connected to them. This book is beautifully illustrated with…

  This book is really quite annoying. It’s annoying because it has some really good parts but it lacks structure of any sort. Most sentences are perfect but many paragraphs are a collection of sentences that are poorly linked together. I often got to the end of a paragraph and went back to try to…

I have to admit that John (Johannes) Riutta’s excellent website, The Well-Read Naturalist, first came to my attention when he wrote a very kind review of my A Message from Martha, but I have been dipping into it regularly ever since. I like the ethos of the site ‘The Well-read Naturalist publishes reviews and news…