Standing up for Nature
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).
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…
The Corner Laughers (see Corner Laughers’ new album and video, 30 June 2015, Pop songs and pigeons by Karla Lane, 29 July 2014) will be visiting the UK soon and are doing a gig with the Cambridge Conservation Forum on Monday 9 November which will include lots of fabulous songs, but certainly Martha (named after…
I review quite a lot of books on this blog, and I’ve reviewed many books elsewhere over the years too. I’ve tried to adopt an approach of describing what I like or dislike about a book – the way it’s written, illustrated and the arguments inside it – rather than saying that it is a…
The paperback edition of A Message from Martha is published today. At less than a tenner (£10) it’s ridiculously cheap! ‘This absorbing book is an engaging and wistful, yet measured, chronicle about the tragic loss of one very special, iconic, species‘ – Guardian ‘An entertaining book … told with humour and disarming self deprecation‘…