Category: Book review

Writing competition – write a book review of George Monbiot’s Feral Last year this blog held a writing competition which produced some excellent articles (including this winner in the Wildlife and Politics category by Kerri ni Dochartaigh).  I have some ideas for further writing competitions and this is the first one. Write a book review of…

I very much enjoyed David Cobham’s previous book on raptors, A Sparrowhawk’s Lament.  This new, slim offering has many of the same features that made that book such a pleasure to read; a love of raptors, a selection of anecdotes and a range of snippets of conversations with others involved in the subject. But this…

This is a beautiful book with fantastic images. Most of the photos are by Neil McIntyre (with a few from James Shooter, Peter Cairns and Jackie Walker). Seen one Red Squirrel, seen them all? No! Despite this book having scores of Red Squirrel images the species is so photogenic and the images are so crisp…

  This is a bird version of the same author’s Buzzing which was reviewed here three years ago. Anneliese is a poet, writer and performer and her bubbly personality comes across in her book. It consists of c50 double-page spreads of bird species – in each of which there is a poem and a bunch…