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Forthcoming Publications

 

They can be pre-ordered online for a great discount about 2 months before the publication date. See more info on Facebook. 

 

2013

 

Scilly Birding - Joining the Madding Crowd

by Simon Davey

Publication Date: 25 April 2013

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SWAT! A Fly's Guide to Staying Alive

by Mike Barfield

Publication Date: 16 April 2013

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And Listen to the Waves - Selected Poems

by Brian Churcher

Publication Date: 23 April 2013

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Wild Sonnets - Thirty Poems about World Wildlife

by Anthony Boniface

Publication Date: 23 April 2013

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Making Wildflower Meadows - How to create a haven for wildlife in your garden

by Jenny Steel

Publication Date:14 June 2013

 

Rings in the Shingles - Images and Poems from the Norfolk Coast

by Stuart Medland

Publication Date: 21 May 2013

 

Norfolk Wildlife - birds, butterflies, dragonflies, orchids and other major animals and plants of the county

by Adrian Riley

Publication Date: 27 June 2013 

 

The Skomer Island Journal

by Richard Kipling

Publication date: 7 June 2013

 

African Queens and their Kin - a forty-year Darwinian Odyssey

by David A.S. Smith

Publication date: 5 July 2013 

 

A-Zof Birds - A birder's tales from around the World

by Bo Beolans

Publication date: 1 August 2013

 


British and Irish Butterflies - app

This best-selling book by Adrian Riley is now available as an app for your iPhone or iPad for £4.99. Click here to order from iTunes.

  • It contains all the information of the original book, except for the scientific references and appendices.
  • With the latest upgrade (Dec. 2010), a record button was added for you to e-mail home any butterfly sightings with coordinates, date and time.
  • For each app sold, we will give a donation to Butterfly Conservation to support their excellent work in protecting and encouraging our butterfly fauna. 
  • We very much hope that you enjoy and find this new electronic facility useful.

Events


2013

 

May 17: Royal Society announces that Buzzing! by Anneliese Emmans Dean has been shortlisted for their Young People's book Prize! Fantastic news. Congratulations Anneliese.

 

March 6-8th: IPG annual Publishing Conference in Oxford

 

March 9th: Essex Book Fair

Ross Gardner, author of Never a dull Moment, and Andrew Fallan, author of Winging it, will take part at the Essex Book Fair at Thurrock Thameside Nature Park.

 


2012


Buzzing! on the longlist for the Carnegie's Childrens Book Award! Congratulations Anneliese!

 

Signing event at Titchwell Marsh RSPB

The naturalist Ross Gardner will be signing his book 'Never a Dull Moment' at the Lackford Lakes visitor centre in Suffolk on Sunday morning, 30th September. If you are around for the coffee morning you shouldn't miss to listen to Ross's fascinating accounts about British wildlife, especially insects and plants.
 

Signing event at Titchwell Marsh RSPB

Andrew Fallan will sign his book 'Winging it' at Titchwell Marsh RSPB reserve in Norfolk on Saturday 29th September 2012, from 11am to 2pm. This will be a fantastic opportunity to both meet the author and to hear about his birding exploits around the UK.

 

Scottish Birdfair 19-20 July 2012

You can buy our books at the WildSounds stand.

 

Author interview

Charlie Moores from Talking Naturally interviewed Andrew Fallan about his latest book, Winging it - Birding for low-flyers.

 

2011


 

Another book signing!!

Andrew Fallan will be at a signing session for his book Winging it on Saturday 12th November at the RSPB Visitor Centre Rainham Marshes, Essex.

 


 

Book signing!!

Author Andrew Fallan will be signing his book Winging it on Saturday 29th October at the new RSPB Visitor Centre at Wat Tyler Country Park in Basildon, Essex. Make sure you get your signed copy!

 


Insect Festival at York 3 July at Hospitium

We will have a raffle with fantastic prizes, such as t-shirts printed with insect photos. Join us for a fantastic day.

The day was great fun with having lots of young visitors. Some of them were lucky enough to win the t-shirts and the book What's in your Garden.


Hay on Wye Book Festival
5 June 2011

Signing session of What's in your Garden by author Sir Colin Spedding


Launch:

Never a dull moment - a naturalist's view of British wildlife

by Ross Gardner

 

 Ross Gardner during the launch in the gardens of the Royal Entomological Society on 3rd June 2011.


Launch:

Winging it - birding for low-flyers by Andrew Fallan

Foreword by Chris Packham

Launch on 21 April in Corringham

 

 The author Andrew Fallan (right) with his niece Kasia (to whom the book was dedicated) and Chris Packham who wrote the Foreword.

 

This book is all about the enjoyment of birdwatching, begun in childhood, during university time, and later, when the author found his true love.


London Book Fair  April 11-13, 2011

 

Brambleby Books was there joining the IPG stall.


2010

The Jena Poems

by Hugh D. Loxdale

Publication Date: November 2010


At the Royal Entomological Society Conference at Swansea

 

 Brambleby Books offering latest selection of their books


Launch:

What's in your Garden A book for young explorers by Colin Spedding, CBE

 

This book aims to encourage 7-11 year-olds to discover the abundant animal and plant life in their garden. To order please click here.

 

  

 

Book launch of What's in your Garden held at Butterfly World, St Albans, 4 June 2010; l to r: Nicola Loxdale - Brambleby Books; Isla Woiwod - artist; Sir Colin Spedding - author; Tanya Warren  - book designer; Dr Kate Baker - Head of Science, Melbourn Village College, Cambridge. 


 

 


PR

Helen McCusker, from Booked PR (www.bookedpr.com), will assist us in getting our books to the media.  

 

 


Winging it - Birding for low-flyers
Winging it - Birding for low-flyers

Enjoyment and adventures of birdwatching from child- to adulthood.

The Ruffled Edge
The Ruffled Edge

Memoirs of a conservationist, passionate about birds.

Buzzing!
Buzzing!

A potpourri of fun poems about small garden creatures and their colour portraits.