The Barley Bird


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Mabey explores the nightingale's link with Suffolk culture and landscape and traces the bird's course through myth, lore and tradition. He plumbs his subject for its fascinating literary and historical references and opens the readers ears to the bird itself and its extraordinary song.




Jackal Bird


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Jackal Bird follows the terraforming and political evolution of the colony world of Isurus, also called New Foster, where the colonist's children play a dangerous game designed to indoctrinate them into an adult life of revolution, political turmoil and cultural upheaval. Intrigue, conflict, and intricate maneuvering are the norms on a world where control means everything, and survival is the most dangerous game of all.







British Birds


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Bird Cottage


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A novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her windows, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman's decision to defy society's expectations, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world.