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…
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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…
Made me smile
This made me smile: Dear Dr Avery, I have just finished reading your book, Inglorious, having picked it up just 24 hours ago. A fascinating and spirited read. Actually it’s two books; one rather silly one about toffs, acres of tweed, wealth, land, haves & have-nots, aristocracy, Conservative Party bashing, and, one about upland…
Not many Waxwings
It doesn’t appear that this winter will be a Waxwing winter. If it is going to be one of those years when Tesco car parks are flooded with Rowan-eating visitors from Scandinavia then large numbers have usually been seen on the east coast and Fair Isle by now. But you can keep track of sightings…
My inbox
Do you look forward to, or dread, reading your new emails? I’m quite keen on mine, partly because, just occasionally, I get one like this: As a farmer I have often been a bit sensitive to your opinions, but at least I now know you allow that some of us are the good guys!…
Thoughts on Inglorious from Ronnie Graham
Mark writes: below you’ll find a long series of comments on Inglorious by Ronnie Graham (of whom I know, but who don’t know personally). I thought you might find it interesting because Ronnie is interesting – a shooter and a raptor worker. His comments are reproduced in whole below and my comments (which I have…
Corner Laughers’ UK tour
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I’m looking forward to doing a couple of reading from A Message from Martha at the Corner Laughers‘ Cambridge gig in the Portland Arms, a week today. I see they are also appearing in Bethnal Green (8 Nov), Nottingham (10 Nov), Brighton (12 Nov), Swindon (13 Nov) and York (14 Nov).
Northampton NHS (and then Northern Ireland)
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I’m looking forward to talking about Passenger Pigeons on Friday evening to the Northamptonshire Natural History Society. I’ll have a pile of books to offer for sale at this event – it’s ‘nearly’ Christmas (near enough to start buying some easy personalised presents anyway). That’s…