VIEW FROM THE HILL: FOUR SEASONS IN A WALKERS BRITAIN (PB)

During lockdown, Christopher Somerville revisited the 450 battered notebooks in which he has recorded his impressions from forty years of exploring Britain on foot. This selection follows the seasons from a freezing January on the Severn Estuary to a Christmas sunrise glimpsed from inside a burial mound. In between are walks to discover randy natterjack toads in a Cumbrian spring, trout in a Hampshire chalk stream in midsummer, a stag at the autumn rut on the Isle of Mull, and three thousand geese in the wintry Norfolk sky.