No book review this week – I haven’t had time to do a particular book justice in my reading. But I have been in a few bookshops in London. It’s always good to see one’s own books on sale, even if they sometimes take a bit of tracking down sometimes. This copy of Remarkable Birds…
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A message from Åsa; a message from Sweden
Dear Mark, First I would like to thank you for your beautiful and sad book about the passenger pigeon. I came across it by chance as I looked into a bookshop´s window in Amsterdam. There it was, a small, red book with the word passenger pigeon written across it. I went in and bought it….
Reviews of Remarkable Birds
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John Lewis-Stempel makes Remarkable Birds a The Times book of the year for 2016, ‘Avery’s pen portraits are exquisite, as are the hundreds of accompanying antique paintings and drawings by the likes of Audubon and Thornton. The book is like holding gold or jewels. I cannot put it down‘ – full review Robert Tanitch, Mature…
Thank you for some great writing
Thank you to all who submitted entries for this blog’s first writing competition – there were some really good entries and five very good winners: Wildlife and Politics Kerri ni Dochartaigh Invertebrates Sue Croxford Wildlife and the Arts Ross Hunter International Wildlife Hugh Webster Under-18 category Hazel Peters But there were some excellent other…
Writing competition – Wildlife and Politics winner, Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Kerri ní Dochartaigh grew up climbing trees, eating beans on toast, watching birds, swimming in the Atlantic Ocean and making wreaths from wild flowers. She still does all of these things. She read English Lit and Classics at Trinty College Dublin and taught in Steiner Schools in Edinburgh and Bristol. She finally moved home to…
Waiting for a winner to get in touch
You may be wondering who has won the last category (Wildlife and Politics) of this blog’s writing competition. Well, we have a winner, unanimously chosen by the three judges. But I’m waiting for the winner to get in touch with me so that I can send her (for the winner is a she) a copy…
Remarkable Birds – a Times book of the year
This was a very pleasant surprise! When I returned home yesterday evening, in time to watch Strictly, after a lovely day at a Dorset Bird Club/BTO conference, my Mum was on the ‘phone reading me this review of Remarkable Birds which appeared in The Times as a book of the year in the ‘outdoors’ category:…
Sunday book review – A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
This is a book about bird gatherings from seabird colonies to winter roosts. Having spent a frustrating evening recently looking for a Pied Wagtail roost that wasn’t there I enjoyed hearing of Matt Merritt’s successes. A huge flock of birds is a sight to be seen – and sometimes a sound to be heard and…
Writing competition – Invertebrates category winner, Sue Croxford
Sue Croxford is the winner of the Invertebrates Category in this blog’s writing competition. A copy of Remarkable Birds is in the post to her. Sue writes: I am lucky enough to live in the beautiful Chiltern hills with my husband, two children and a bonkers labrador. We spend a lot of time outside exploring the weird…
You’ll have to be quite quick
Signed copies of the hardback of A Message from Martha are disappearing fast from my house as you snap them up at just £10 incl P&P. I ordered 50 copies last week and you have bought 38 of them (and I want to keep some to sell at talks etc) so there really aren’t many…