Dear Mr Pursglove I am a constituent of yours and, although it is extremely unlikely that I will ever vote for you, I would like to wish you well during your period as an MP. Being an MP is a great opportunity and also a great responsibility. I hope that your stay in the House…
Category: AUTHOR: Reflections, Inglorious, Message from Martha, Remarkable Birds etc
Happy publisher and a question for you.
I saw my commissioning editor at Bloomsbury, Jim Martin, last week. He seems delighted with me – he even bought me a cup of coffee! Inglorious must be selling well! We talked about the paperback which will come out next July and will include a brief update on this year, 2015. But, sensing that Jim…
A Message from Martha – the paperback
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The paperback of A Message from Martha is out on 24 September: it has the same words, a lower price and a slightly different cover. Today is the 101st anniversary of the extinction of the most numerous bird on Earth. In the last year have we moved closer to saving the world’s biodiversity? Not much,…
Ilkley Literary Festival – 10 October
I’ll be chatting about driven grouse shooting at the Ilkley Literary festival on Saturday 10 October. It would be good to see a few friendly faces as I venture into grouse shooting country. This does mean that I will miss the RSPB AGM on the same day in London (for the first time for well…
Inglorious
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I spent quite a lot of the Bird Fair signing copies of books – particularly of Inglorious. This led to lots of conversations with lots of nice people about Hen Harrier Day, Hen Harriers, shooting organisations and driven grouse shooting. There were quite a few ‘Well done!‘s, a lot of ‘What next?‘s and quite a…
Review of Behind the Binoculars in the Sunday Express
Keith Betton and I signed a lot of copies of our book at the Bird Fair over the weekend. We also did a little turn in the Authors’ Forum where we talked about the book but also talked to two of the interviewees in the book – DIM Wallace and Debbie Pain. It was a…
Henry says ‘Hi!’ to Bloomsbury
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50 Bedford Square is the address of the publisher of Inglorious – conflict in the uplands. Henry thought he ought to say hello. Ban driven grouse shooting.
And there is this other book
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I’ve said before that it’s bad timing having two books coming out at the same time. I have, I must admit, given a lot more effort to promoting Inglorious than I have to promoting Behind the Binoculars – mainly because Inglorious is part of a campaign whereas Behind the Binoculars is just a rather good…
A nice old Lady
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The Lady is the oldest weekly magazine aimed primarily at women in the UK and is probably the magazine of choice for grouse moor owners who are looking for some new domestic staff. I have never, knowingly, picked up a copy and it isn’t exactly where I would have expected to find a glowing review…
Marching on
James Marchington has a go at me in something called ‘ishoot’. Apparently I am having a mid-life crisis and should have run off with my secretary on a Harley Davidson instead of campaigning about the ills of grouse shooting. Thanks for the advice James. There was a time when James wrote rather good pieces…