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October 19, 2021

Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons by Lev Parikian

Review by Liz Dexter “For Japan’s lotus blossom, praying mantis and bear, we have bramble, wood louse and urban fox” Lev Parikian, a writer,…

June 1, 2021

The Nightingale: Notes on a songbird, by Sam Lee

Review by Peter Reason Sam Lee is a renowned song collector, interpreter, and singer of folk songs from Britain and Ireland; he has an…

November 5, 2020

Wintering: A Season With Geese by Stephen Rutt

Reviewed by Liz Dexter Stephen Rutt and his partner move to Dumfries, to a flat near the Solway Firth, just as he’s finishing writing…

April 14, 2020

The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński

Translated from Polish by Bill Johnston Review by Peter Reason Stanisław Łubieński first began observing birds in childhood through Soviet binoculars. Later, he took…

March 5, 2020

Red Sixty Seven, curated by Kit Jewitt

Review by Peter Reason When I was a small boy, back in the 1950s, I remember going on Sunday School trips to the seaside….

seafarers stephen rutt
August 6, 2019

The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt

Review by Liz Dexter This charming and perceptive book opens with a gut-wrenching account of taking off in a Very Small Plane from Kirkwall…

Birds in the Ancient World jeremy mynott
June 18, 2019

Birds in the Ancient World by Jeremy Mynott

Review by Liz Dexter Jeremy Mynott is both a classical scholar and a writer on birds, and his love and deep knowledge of both…

Seabirds Cry Nicolson
November 21, 2017

The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson

Review by Peter Reason It is easy for those of us who live inland to read the ‘seabirds’ in the title as ‘seagulls’ and…

October 26, 2017

Ornithology by Nicholas Royle

Reviewed by Annabel Earlier this year, I reviewed the novel An English Guide to Birdwatching by an author named Nicholas Royle, and I interviewed…

May 23, 2017

Q&A with Nicholas Royle, author of An English Guide to Birdwatching

Interview by Annabel Annabel: Firstly, I apologise, but I must admit, when offered this book for review, I initially mixed you up with the other…

May 23, 2017

An English Guide to Birdwatching by Nicholas Royle

Review by Annabel When first offered this book to review – I thought it was finally time to get around to reading one of…

October 14, 2014

A Message From Martha by Mark Avery

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is an important centenary year; on 1 September, 1914, the world’s last Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died in Cincinnati…

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