BOOK REVIEWERS & BOOKS REVIEWED
Below is a list of books which were reviewed at the MKNHS book review evening on 9th November.
2 of the reviews had to be left out or cut short due to lack of time. These are available as links:
Ian Saunders’ review of Ghosts of Gondwana, by George Gibbs
Mike LeRoy’s review of Swifts and Us, by Sarah Gibson
- Julie Lane
The Seabird’s Cry: the Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers – Adam Nicholson (2018: William Collins)
[Winner of the Wainwright Prize 2018; USA title: ‘The Seabird’s Cry: the Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers’] - Charles Kessler
English Pastoral: An Inheritance – James Reebanks
(2020: Allen Lane/Penguin Books) - Sue Weatherhead
Butterflies (British Wildlife Collection, Number 10) – Martin Warren
(2021: Bloomsbury) - Tim Arnold
Much Ado About Mothing: A year intoxicated by Britain’s rare and remarkable moths –
James Lowen
(2021: Bloomsbury) - Mary Sarre
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the time of the Coronavirus –Michael McCarthy,
Jeremy Mynott and Peter Marren
(2020: Hodder)
A Claxton Diary: Further Field Notes from a Small Planet – Mark Cocker
(2019: Jonathan Cape) - Ian Saunders
Beasts Before Us: The untold story of mammal origins and evolution – Elsa Panciroli
(2021: Bloomsbury Sigma publishing)
Ghosts of Gondwana: The history of life in New Zealand – George Gibbs
(Fully revised edition, 2016: Potton and Burton) - Colin Docketty
A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: a celebration of Britain’s 59 species – Jonathan Bradley
(2020: Merlin Unwin Books, Ludlow) - Mike LeRoy
Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky – Sarah Gibson
(2021: William Collins)