If one was to make a list of the words potentially appearing on the cover of a book that would most likely stop me in my tracks whilst perusing the shelves in a bookshop, “reading,” “British,” and “natural history” would all be in the top ten.
Checking in with Mark Avery, I found him contemplating the tangled bank – not Darwin’s famous tangled bank, mind you; rather Lev Parikian’s forthcoming “Into the Tangled Bank” from Elliott & Thompson, which he has taken up in his most recent Sunday Book Review.
I have a confession to make: over the course of all the visits I’ve made to the UK, I’ve not once seen a live badger (emphasis on the “live”). So when I make my next trip, I’ll most certainly be consulting the new “RSPB British Naturefinder” by Marianne Taylor.
Volume seven of the Bloomsbury Wildlife Collection is now available, and in his most recently published Sunday Book Review, it has Mark wishing for a Northhamptonshire coastline so he can more easily visit the tidepools about which he has learned from reading this new book.