The Black Grouse Winchelsea

The Black Grouse WinchelseaThe first book to be written on this fascinating, severely declining species, the Black Grouse. Beautifully illustrated with the authors own watercolours, this lively natural history conveys Lauries passion for these vulnerable, delightfully aggressive and at turns shy and elusive, birds as they struggle for survival.

its curious customs

Shropshire’s notorious and also its heroic vicars

with some potentially dire and far-reaching consequences for the 3 billion

one of 15 children

which shows how the local people amused themselves when not at work

• What's a hogget

Montana Nymph

and what it will end in

where his owner

Whether fishing in some exotic far-flung location

A skilled tracker

Ovington’s Bank is a forgotten masterpiece from peerless story-teller Stanley Weyman who was once as popular as Dickens