It's been rather a long time in the offing, but very pleased to announce that I will be working with Bloomsbury (publisher of the sex and the death books - did I not mention?) on not one but two new book projects, working with two of my favourite NGOs. The Wildlife Pond Handbook is going to be, well, a handbook about how to create SPECTACULAR oases for wildlife. There were a few books like this back in the nineties, but there isn't really anything recent that pulls together a

Those lovely people at Bloomsbury Sigma -publishers of a mind-warping range of excellent and exciting popular science books- are having a September sale. You can get eBook versions of all their books (including -COUGH- mine) for the wonderful price of £1.99 or £2.99. More info is here. In recent months, I've devoured some superb reads from this imprint including Vanessa Potter's Patient H69 (which my wife also loved) and Helen Pilcher's Bring Back The King plus the very brill