Books from Two Ravens Press
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A WILDER VEIN
Linda Cracknell (ed), Robert Macfarlane (Foreword)
An anthology of new literary non-fiction that focuses on the relationship between people and the wild places of Britain and Ireland. This is writing which animates a connection between humanity and the natural world, articulating discoveries and new ways of seeing – writing which is, above all, a meditation on who we are as people in a still-wild world.
Contributors are: Raja Shehadeh, Andrew Greig, Sara Maitland, Margaret Elphinstone, Kenneth Taylor, Jane Alexander, Michelle Cotter, Marco Daane, Alison Grant, Mandy Haggith, Lesley Harrison, Neil Hegarty, Gerry Loose, Katherine Macrae, Susan Richardson, Lisa Samson, Judith Thurley and Ken Wilkie.
Featured on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage
Recommended by The Independent as a 'best book
for Christmas'
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OUTSIDE
Chris McCully
In 2007 Chris McCully, whose roots are in Yorkshire, relocated to the het Hogeland region of the Netherlands. A lifelong angler, he fishes to find his way into the life and landscape of his new home. His fishing rods, ostensibly there to catch fish, become divining rods: they are a way of reacting, fathoming, exploring and understanding. In this series of essays and reflections he writes about seaweeds, about freshwater mussels, about winter starlight, geese, wigeon, small boys catching frogs and exiled Irish noblemen. He writes about forgotten cloisters, coats-of-arms; about ice; about subtlety and owl holes in barns ... And above all he writes about displacement, loneliness, and about ‘not fitting in’ – about being Outside.
'Imagine a Yorkshire WG Sebald, with flashes of wit and briefly allowed lyricism ... The value of these pieces lies in the bleak, grey-gleaming beauty of their prose, the illumination of lowly, unconsidered aspects of the world, and the underlying existential enquiry ... Rather wonderful.'
Andrew Greig, Literary Review
'[McCully] has a miniaturists' eye for detail. He's interested in patterns, topography and the intricate history of words ... [He] writes uncommonly well, and proves a most agreeable companion. At large in the Great Outdoors, he gradually adapts to the unfamiliar landscape of polders and canals, somewhat wistfully concluding: "But wherever home once was, it's no longer there."' Country Life
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BLAZING PADDLES
Brian Wilson
Alone in his tiny kayak, Brian Wilson sets off on an 1800-mile odyssey around Scotland’s grand cliffscapes, unspoiled shorelines, fearsome sea passages and Hebridean islands. He discovers a world of sea-level adventure, and in the process takes a good look at Scottish identity from a unique and fascinating perspective. Sometimes harrowing, frequently philosophical, often hilarious, this book will appeal to all lovers of the coast and its endlessly varied characters, wildlife and lore. Adventure is there aplenty as he battles with whirlpools, heavy seas and hypothermia, streaks naked in front of Lady Diana, and survives a close encounter with a killer whale. The narrative is brim-full of history and folklore, disasters at sea, haunted bothies and the exploits of Celtic Saints, Viking raiders and mermaids. It is inhabited by larger-than-life characters like Tex Geddes the shark hunter, Dr Stan the cave-dweller, and a whole camp of homosexual gold panners. It is also a perceptive commentary on submarines, supertankers, and other issues threatening the Scottish coastline and its unique and fragile wildlife.
'As good a maritime sage as has ever come out of the Scottish seas.’ The Scotsman
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DANCES WITH WAVES
Brian Wilson
Dances with Waves has all the ingredients of a great adventure – danger, high drama, narrow escapes, bizarre encounters. On Brian Wilson’s solo 1200-mile voyage around the coast of Ireland his little kayak is lashed by the tail-wind of Hurrican Gusta, bombarded by the incontinent gannets of the Skelligs, and almost run down by a ghost galleon off Mizen Head. Sherkin Island pirates kidnap him for ransom, his boat is claimed as wreckage by the beachcombers of Connemara, and he receives an ecstatic welcome from Fungi, the Dingle Dolphin. Add to this diversions into sea-lore, local legend, music and history and you have a yarn that will entertain landlubbers and sailors alike.
'A daring, eloquent, and deeply rewarding adventure story.' National Geographic Traveller
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MURMURATIONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UNCANNY STORIES ABOUT BIRDS
Edited by Nicholas Royle
Freud observed that birds ‘don’t seem to be submitted to the same laws of gravity as us’, although without gravity they would die, as they need it to swallow. Birds are all around us; they could not be more familiar. And yet at the same time they are alien, unheimlich – uncanny.
Award-winning editor Nicholas Royle brings together previously published stories by Daphne du Maurier, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban and others with brand-new tales by contemporary writers including Bill Broady, Adam Marek, Regi Claire and many more.
With a foreword by Angelica Michelis, senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Contributors’ royalties and editor’s fee to be donated to the RSPB.
'These tales exude a striking weirdness and a sense of wonderment ... Exploring "the way in which birds inhabit the border between the mundane and the extraordinary", these stories provide a startling glimpse into a world of otherness capable, at times, of eerily mirroring our own.' The Guardian
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