Product & Book Reviews

  Quiller Publishing Ltd (29 Aug. 2017) Hardcover: 192 pages ISBN-10: 1846892449 From the very moment you pick up Adrian’s book, you know exactly that it has been written by an utmost enthusiast of our cause. The title indeed is a good give away in itself! However it is the way that the book has...

In summary, and for all the right reasons this book made me angry. Not because it wasn’t a good read, it was, but because it took a new Irish writer to provide a narrative for the current disconnect between town and country in England! Why is this something that English authors have apparently shied away...

Ron Black with Jean Walton and Jean Gidman, Edited By Wendy Fraser. Approx 70000 words, soft back at A5. Black and white with some colour illustrations. Price £25 inc p and p. Available from Gone2Ground books or e mail cumbrian-lad@hotmail.co.uk In 1920, Richard Clapham quite rightly wrote on the subject of fell hunting….”If you go...

Most people involved with horses have heard the phrase, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”. Everyone who has taken their horse out for a day’s hunting and tried to get him to drink away from home, knows the problem all to well – horses can be difficult! We...

This is a challenging review to write as I am not a fan of wearing gloves – it may be psychological but I have always felt that you cannot get all the feedback you need from the reins through gloves. That said they are compulsory for some events involving turnout so when I have to...

What if you have muscular calves with wide feet and therefore do not fit in regular sized boots? Worse still, through past experience I have learned new long boots are painful to wear initially and give me constant cold feet. So I researched the market and looked at everything from quality rubber boots to bespoke...

Ron Black is a Cumbrian whose ancestors can be traced back several hundred years and have been immersed in the local hunting culture for as long. Over the last few years he has been extremely prolific in producing a superb series of small books tracing the history of hunting in his native Cumbria. These books...

2nd Edition by Jackie Drakeford ISBN 978-1-84689-109-0  R.R.P. £14.99 There are times in the hunting year that the weather conspires to make the day unsafe for hounds or horses and on such days there is nothing better than spending a day working with dogs and ferrets. In this excellent review Dan Murphy looks at an...

In reviewing the fantastic book from Quiller The Best of British – A Celebration of British Gunmaking by Vic Venters and David Grant ISBN 978-1846890697 published 2010 priced at £35-00 we are asking two questions, the first is- Should a reference work on guns and gun-making be reviewed in Baily’s to which the answer must...

When I settled down to read this book I came to page 8 and knew that I was on to something out of the ordinary, much more than a run of the mill, hunting/working dog book. For page 8 tells us a little of the work of the Hospice of the Valleys and profits from...