My book, Inglorious – conflict in the uplands was published almost exactly two years ago in hardback, and almost exactly a year ago, in an updated paperback edition (pictured above) . I still haven’t made my fortune from it but it has sold well – over 5000 copies. It’s not a book about Hen…
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I love this time of year…
The run-up to Hen Harrier Day and the #Inglorious12th is always a great time of year. It’s when the worst elements of the shooting industry, and their hangers on, show how rattled they are, and let a little nastiness out for us all to see. Here’s an example from last year. Since then they have…
How you can help the Hen Harrier
Remember this video? Filmed in 2013, but only released in May this year, and it resulted in no prosecution. Hen Harriers are killed on grouse moors because they eat Red Grouse that people want to shoot for fun. Hen Harriers have had full legal protection since 1954 and yet the main factor determining their range…
Another review of Remarkable Birds
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Reviews seem to be like buses – two have come along together. Jeremy Mynott in the Times Literary Supplement reviews Remarkable Birds and The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes. Here are some of the nice things he says about Remarkable Birds: ‘Packed with all manner of interesting facts, expertly presented and all tending to…
Remarkable Birds – a new review
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A review of Remarkable Birds, by Michael McCarthy, from Resurgence and Ecologist. Some extracts: I was particularly entranced by a moody, haunting vision of rooks rebuilding their nests in spring by the Russian 19th-century landscape artist Alexander Savrasov, and by the bold-faced osprey of his British contemporary Prideaux John Selby. Remarkable Birds goes beyond the…
Remarkable Birds
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Remarkable Birds is widely regarded as a beautiful book – I’m very pleased with it. Here are just a few examples of the species covered in the book and some of the information it contains. Lear’s Macaw is named after Edward Lear, artist and author of nonsense verse, who painted one in London Zoo…
‘The’ book on the Hen Harrier
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Bloomsbury (of which Poyser is now a part) are reissuing Donald Watson’s classic book on the Hen Harrier this summer. My copy of the book sits within reach on my desk right now and it was the first Christmas present that my then girlfriend, now wife, gave me, very nearly 40 years ago. Watson’s…
Nice to see in Waterstones in York
Paperback now published
Behind the Binoculars is now out in paperback – even better value. Funnily enough, a second volume of interviews, Behind More Binoculars, is also approaching publication. More on that later.
Martha
Remember I had that lovely letter from Åsa the other day? Well here is the drawing that arrived in the post the other day. Isn’t that wonderful – what a lovely present! And here is the detail of Martha A Message from Martha by Mark Avery is published by Bloomsbury.