Books

Arrivals and Rivals – A duel for the winning bird
Birding is becoming one of the fastest growing outdoor activities, especially in the UK. Adrian Riley provides with his book entertaining and highly illuminating insights …

British and Irish Butterflies
The complete Identification, Field and Site Guide to the Species, Subspecies and Forms. A wonderful butterfly book, the first to cover all the adult forms, …

UK500 – Birding in the Fast Lane
This is a lively, entertaining and informative account of the author’s quest over 17 years, and before his 30th birthday, to record 500+ species of …

The Flora of Berkshire
Including those parts of modern Oxfordshire that lie to the south of the River Thames This comprehensive and timely work by one of Britain’s leading plant …

Feathers and Eggshells – The Bird Journal of a young London Girl
The author, Natalie Lawrence, already had a passion for wild birds as a teenager. Here she takes us on an extended tour of her favourite …

Blue Skies in Tuscany
Poems about Life, Love … and Lesser Burdock By turns moving and wryly humorous, personal and universal, this collection of 84 poems offers a series …

The Eternal Quest
A celebration of nature in poetry This book, a collection of 55 poems by the British scientist, natural historian and poet Hugh David Loxdale, originally …

Bird Words
Poetic images of wild birds This selection of poetry conveys the author’s passion for these extraordinary creatures, co-inhabitants of our world, whose appearance, voice and …

Fascinating Felines
Sixty Cat Poems This collection of 60 poems is all about cats, very much from a zoologist’s perspective, including their variety, beauty, independence, affection, sublime …