Thank you to BBC Wildlife magazine for making Inglorious your Book of the Month and thank you to Charlie Elder for a very kind review. I liked ‘expansive in scope yet forensic in detail‘ and also, of course ‘clearly reasoned and well-written‘. I do believe that the idea of a ban on driven grouse shooting…
Category: AUTHOR: Reflections, Inglorious, Message from Martha, Remarkable Birds etc
Two more reviews of Inglorious
James Attlee in the Independent ‘ Avery is a reasonable man; by his own admission “a wishy-washy liberal” who has engaged in fruitless years of dialogue with the grouse-shooting industry in his efforts to gain concessions. Once roused, however, he proves indefatigable. So far the political connections and powerful lobbying of the industry has maintained the…
Henry finds another butt
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Inglorious in the media
In Tuesday’s Independent by me In Thursday’s Times (Scotland only?) by Lindsay Mcintosh and Robbie Hurley On Thursday’s BBC Radio 4 Farming Today (7m30s into it). Ban driven grouse shooting – please sign up here.
Henry visits the CLA
Belgrave Square has rarely, if ever, seen a six-foot Hen Harrier before, but last week we visited the London HQ of the Country Land and Business Association. Henry said that it all looked very posh – much posher than the Scottish Land and Estates little office block. Henry gave his plumage a special preen to…
Today Inglorious is published
Big day for me – just a normal day for everyone else. There was a very nice review of Inglorious in The Independent by friend of mine, and friend of nature, Michael McCarthy (click here). ‘The logic is impeccable‘ There was a less favourable account of Inglorious in The Times by no friend of mine,…
Henry just had to stop
Henry and I were passing through the Oxfordshire countryside, somewhere between Banbury and Chipping Norton, at least I think it was Oxfordshire, maybe it was Northants. As I say, we were just passing through, when Henry said that he needed to consult Inglorious about a few things. So he did. For everyone else, Inglorious –…
Henry visits the Countryside Alliance
The Countryside Alliance is full of real country people – like Sir Barnie White-Spunner (who ran for cover from the Lead Ammunition Group). They didn’t seem to be in when we visited last week with the red London buses , black taxi cabs, and commuters in a traffic jam on the Kennington Road. Maybe they’d…
It’s not published yet but…
I’ve been getting ‘phone calls and emails from friends, and from people I don’t know well, telling me that they have enjoyed reading Inglorious – conflict in the uplands, even though it isn’t officially published until Thursday – that’s 30 July. The earliest copy that I know to have been bought from a bookshop was…
Stranger danger and young naturalists?
Mark Cocker’s interview in Behind the Binoculars prompted this discussion with Lucy MacRobert on this morning’s Today Programme (2h 53m into the programme). Good thoughts (not sure how I missed it myself!). But Mark and all the other interviewees said many more things too!