Thank you to the chair of Natural England for putting Inglorious in his list of books to which he turned for inspiration this year. The other four books are all excellent and it is rather nice to be snuggling up to them on the page in Country Life. I’m glad to see Inglorious on the…
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An ex-gamekeeper writes…
Having just finished reading your book ‘Inglorious’ I’m prompted, and indeed inspired, to write to you. I’d like to begin by telling you something about my background. Since childhood I have been passionately interested in wildlife, with birdwatching at the fore. I was brought up in the conurbations of Manchester where I was born in…
The end of grouse shooting for another year
The open season on Red Grouse ends today and reopens on the Inglorious 12 August 2016. What better day to add your name to an e-petition to get the Westminster parliament to debate the future of grouse shooting? Grouse shooting is a pointless and environmentally damaging hobby for people with guns. this would be fine…
Inglorious listed as a nature book of the year – twice
It’s always nice to be noticed and praised – and that’s what book of the year lists do – see mine here. So, it was obviously very pleasing to see Inglorious listed in two book-of-the-year lists yesterday – the Guardian and The Times. In both cases Inglorious was nestling in with lots of good reads…
Christmas presents for readers…
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Tomorrow I’ll tell you which were my top five books of 2015… (click here for last year’s choices). But if you’d like signed copies of any of my books then you can get them direct from me – click here. Prices include 2nd class postage – as it gets closer to Christmas you’ll have to…