Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot corvid

Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot corvidSet against the dramatic backdrop of the Pennines, Catlow's shooting diary records his year as an amateur pheasant rearer, gamekeeper, forester, dog handler and all round shooting enthusiast. But he also records his thoughts as he goes around his small shoot: his views on the right to roam, on why he loves the birds he shoots, his wine cellar, his other sporting interests. He airs his opinions on subjects as diverse as sport and the nanny state, game

weather permitting

his discoveries about hook strengths and he shares his all-time favourite stillwater flies

It fed us all

• the last hangman

• fabric conditioners

Enrique Ponce and Morante de la Puebla

admires pilot whales off Lewis

Its people included:

the companions of much of his life and his old age

and gives a lively overview of how plants have adapted in order to thrive there

A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman

for shooters and fishers