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Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 2) by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark May 20, 2025March 28, 2026 Comments Off

Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…

Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 1) by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark May 19, 2025March 28, 2026 7 Comments

This blog’s Books of the Year 2023

Mark November 26, 2023March 28, 2026 9 Comments

It seems that I have reviewed 47 books on this blog this year – slightly fewer than in the last couple of years – but a wide-ranging varied selection including many high quality works. If you are looking for a Christmas present for a nature-loving naturalist then this list might give you some ideas and…

Sunday book review – Finding W.H. Hudson by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark August 6, 2023March 28, 2026 2 Comments

Those who have worked at the RSPB Headquarters at Sandy, and some who have gone there for meetings, will have seen the portrait of Hudson above the stone fireplace in what used to be called the main meeting room where, long ago, staff used to have lunch served to them. He became a familiar sight,…

Sunday book review – Shrewdunnit by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark July 20, 2014March 28, 2026 Comments Off

There are two things I like a lot about this book – and four things about which I am less keen. The two are overwhelmingly more important than the four. Shall I get the four niggles out of the way first? I shall. I don’t like the title, I’m not drawn in by the cover,…

Book review – Looking for the Goshawk by Conor Jameson

Mark May 16, 2013March 28, 2026 8 Comments

I liked Conor’s previous book, but I like this one even more. Whereas in Silent Spring Revisited Conor lived through the events described but seemed, to me, to be a little detached from them, this is a book where he describes what he did, and where he went, to get to grips better with a…

Book review – Silent Spring revisited by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark June 15, 2012March 28, 2026 4 Comments

You may have noticed that I have been blogging on the RSPB website since 1 June – in the run up to the Rio+20 conference of world ‘leaders’ which starts next week. My blog for the RSPB today is about the widespread use of ‘-cides’ – chemical poisons. Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, was published…