The GamekeeperGeorge Purse is an ex steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not. Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is

an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations

Les Murray

Andreas Embiricos

calming and healing me with its wisdom and perspectives

well-crafted prose

perplexed by the stranger’s dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Dávila

including at Latitude Festival

her long-awaited return

Connectomics is a book of poems that will expand your mind

or political debate

Includes 52 black-and-white illustrations

Roger Harvey considers the sources of Mary Shelley’s imagination and there are reviews of recent books by Peter Knaggs