Product & Book Reviews

Publisher Merlin Unwin Books Publication date Sept 2018  Language:English  Number of pages:144     ISBN:9781910723746    Price £8-99 Some may find this blasphemy but I’ve never really had much interest in Horse Racing. I can’t say that this great little book has ignited a over arching passin for racing and I’ll be dashing off to the next local...

Published by Quiller Books  Author Adrian Dangar ISBN 9781846892660 Casebound 216 Pages, 243x153mm 2018 Life on the Edge can be purchased for £20 from Quiller Publishing (www.quillerpublishing.com), with signed copies available direct from the author (www.adriandangar.com). This latest book by Adrian Dangar is not another dispassionate biography, but a series of personal and family recollections....

Dog food is simply amazing! I gave my senior dog, a 17 year old, the food both as a treat, mixer and as a meal. Within 5 days there was a noticeable increase in vitality, comfort in walking as the severity of the arthritis in his hips seemed to lessen and his overall demeanour improved....

Lady of the Chase – The Life and hunting Diaries of Daphne Moore  by Alistair Jackson  Illustrations Copyright Michael O’ReillyHardback  pp209 Published by Merlin Unwin 2018 price £25-00 ISBN 978-1-910723-76-0 I well remember talking to Daphne about her Diaries, a welcome foil to the more formal writings of her reports. Somewhere she could release her...

One Man’s Search for the Tribal Horse Games of Asia and Africa Horse Games  Bob Thompson Hardback 288pp ISBN 978-1-91072375-3 Price £20-0 Growing up playing ‘mounted games’ revolved around the Prince Phillip Cup and various regional competitions run by the Pony Club. With such names as ‘tent pegging’ – involving putting a garden cane through...

“The Man Behind the Mike: Mike Tucker; The Voice of  Equestrianism”  Jane  Wallace 2018 Quiller  £20-00 pp304 Hardback  ISBN   9781892684 Mike Tucker’s voice over the loudspeaker always made me concentrate, if I was socializing at the horse of the Year Show (HOYS) or perhaps competing at a County Show then that voice would envitably...

Noel Mullins’ new book, ‘The Dublin Horse Show’, with its  800 action packed images takes the reader on a pictorial journey through the famous show. It has taken more than 10 years for Mullins to take thousands of photos of the annual shop window of the Irish Horse, and to narrow them down to the...

  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...