Miriam Darlington determined to take on an owl quest, to immerse herself in their world, as she says, and also to find out how...

When you think of the best birding in the south of Asia, it is Malaysia that comes to mind, although you are likely not...

There is a thing parents know very well – how important it is to choose the right name for a child. E.g. one Croat...

The new hot novelist Jenny Offill was quoted in the Times magazine recently about her first book: “If someone had described this novel to...

The last time a Julie Zickefoose book was reviewed on this blogsite, the piece began by saying “This is going to be a rave...

I recently read Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, a book by Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. For anyone who has...

It’s December and that means one thing—a great excuse to buy books on birding. I thought I’d do a round-up of some of the...