You generally don’t see very many novels written up in The Well-read Naturalist. Part of this is due to the fact that after a uni degree in English literature, I went a bit off fiction, and when I returned some years later, most of the novels I read tend to be a century or two old and are not particularly applicable to the purpose of this publication. Part is also due to the fact that of those that I see that do take some manner of natural history as their theme, well… my primary editorial rule applies: if I don’t think it’s worthy of recommendation, I simply won’t write about it at all.