"This wonderful collection of wildlife encounters will make anyone want to pull on their boots and re-discover the world on our doorsteps."—Kate Humble, TV host & authorFor the last thirty years, naturalist John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter—a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock...

William Shakespeare, long hailed as the history's greatest dramatic writer, has been lauded for his mastery of poetic expression, his insight into the human condition and his deep exploration into the psyche and motivations of his characters. These skills are perhaps best exemplified in the monologues he gives his various protagonists, villains and bit players.From King Henry V's inspiring speech to his soldiers on the field of Agincourt to the villainous Merchant of Venice Shylock...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARDA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye’s charming account of a year spent with otters, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family – Mustelidae – all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre in the Highlands that he calls home.With fifty years of ex...

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing ab...

Conservationist and naturalist John Lister-Kaye, founder of the Aigas Field Centre, writes about his life in the glens, the wildlife that surrounds him and the primeval magical exchange that takes place between man and nature once so central to ancient civilisations. He describes finding the ruined nineteenth-century estate that is to become Aigas, taking it over and turning it into a going concern as an Educational Centre, and his own personal motivation, following the Torrey Canyon oil s...

Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society Writers' Prize'No one writes more movingly, or with such transporting poetic skill, about encounters with wild creatures. Its pages course with sympathy, humility, and wisdom' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkFrom his home deep in a Scottish glen, John Lister-Kaye has watched and come to understand intimately the movements and habits of the animals, and in particular t...

Darkness stirs on a quiet Moray Firth beach.When Jessica McBain discovers a dolphin washed ashore on her childhood beach, the shock runs deeper than grief. The animal has been shot, an act that tears through the fragile peace of the Black Isle community and draws Jessica into a spiralling investigation. As police probe rising tensions between locals, tourists, and rival marine operators, Jessica finds herself confronting old wounds, uneasy loyalties, and a growing ...

William Shakespeare, long hailed as history's greatest dramatic writer, has been lauded for his mastery of poetic expression, his insight into the human condition and his deep exploration into the psyche and motivations of his characters.These skills are perhaps best encapsulated in the monologues he gives his various protagonists, villains and bit players. From the ambitious Scottish general Macbeth contemplating the assassination of his sovereign king to the saintly Joan of Arc f...

As I write Hermione's twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a period when a child's mind is wide open and as absorbent as a sponge. Blessed years of exploration and discovery, fat and full of the natural world, which surrounds her here ... the mountains and forests and ospreys, eagles, otters and pine martens of a beautiful land.'NATURE'S CHILD is John Lister-Kaye's account of bringing up his daughter ...

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them.Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is...

Three novels in the critically-acclaimed John Jordan series from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Michael Lister.Includes a Special Introduction by Michael ConnellyPOWER IN THE BLOODA missing mom and a suspicious death force a reluctant detective out of self-imposed exile in this fast-paced mystery thriller.Detective John Jordan thought he had put murder investigation behind him for good—his own good. Leaving Atlanta, he returns to Florida...

A murder without a body. A murderer without a memory.John Jordan must determine whether Angel Diaz was murdered by her boyfriend after a magical night together or if he was wrongly convicted and who the real killer is.January 16, 1999: a magical night for a group of high school seniors in Panama City, Florida. They listened to Maya Angelou read poetry. They danced. They celebrated life. By the time they noticed their friend Angel Di...