The results for the BBC Countryfile magazine awards are in.. You can read them here Thank you everyone who voted for Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring to be Country Book of the Year! It wasn’t to be – and I don’t think any of us were expecting it to carry off this coveted award – as […]
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Beyond Spring – shortlisted in BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards!
Matthew Oates’ magnificent book Beyond Spring – Wanderings through Nature is one of only five books that the judges of the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards have shortlisted – for their prestigious title of COUNTRY BOOK OF THE YEAR: The shortlisted books are: Country Book of the Year 2018 The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and […]
Countryfile Magazine Review for Matthew Oates’ Beyond Spring
Fergus Collins, editor of the esteemed Countryfile Magazine has written the following review on Beyond Spring: Wanderings through Nature, by the wonderful Matthew Oates: Beyond Spring: Wanderings through Nature – Matthew Oates (Fair Acre Press, £10.99) Despite all the bad news about our natural world, naturalist Matthew Oates writes with welcome optimism, recalling a number […]
