BLACK OPS AND BEAVER BOMBING (PB)

Britain is teeming with wildlife, often in the most unexpected places. There are stone mines where bats hang out with pot-smoking teenagers. Water voles thrive without water in Glaswegian parklands. Our coastlines are laden with seals. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a quarter of British mammals are at imminent risk of extinction. Armed with binoculars, a Thermos and an inexhaustible supply of puns, the authors travel from Scotland to the Isles of Scilly in search of their elusive subjects.