http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/helen_macdonald en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/08/book-cocker-birds-rooks-home http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/08/book-cocker-birds-rooks-home Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT Helen Macdonald Rooks are one of Britain's most common birds. But, as an eccentric memoir reveals, there is much mystery behind the mundane.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611130052 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611130052 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Helen Macdonald Nature's Engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick Jenny Uglow Faber & Faber, 392pp, £20 ISBN 0571223745

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