The countryside, country life: general interest

The Field by the River

‘Surprises, entertains and enchants … the modern successor to Gilbert White and Henry David Thoreau.’ Indra Sinha, author of Animal’s People, short-listed for the 2007 Man Booker prize

Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book

‘Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and – above all – envious’. So says Bill Oddie, and he should know!

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