by NRB | 27 Jul 2023 | Non-fiction |
Frieda Hughes’ memoir of life with magpie George includes a generous dose of magpie mayhem. George, the baby magpie Frieda Hughes rescues and falls in love with, is, as she readily admits, ‘a little eating-shitting machine’. ‘Don’t write the grotty stuff,’ said a...
by NRB | 12 May 2023 | Flashback Friday, Non-fiction |
First published in 2008, Esther Woolfson’s Corvus is part memoir, part natural history, and conveys her fascination with the birds living in her home. As I write, the bird is behind me on her branch. From time to time she mutters, a sound softly bearing the imprint of...
by NRB | 31 Oct 2019 | Non-fiction |
Many Australians enjoy feeding our native birds. In this guide Darryl Jones suggests better ways to do it. ‘Just Say No’ campaigns against pre-marital sex in the United States tend to fail miserably. That doesn’t stop conservative governments attempting to re-install...
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