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Get 25% discount off a CKBK premium subscription - Access José Souto's game cookbook and summer barbecue recipe section.

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Get 25% discount off a CKBK premium subscription - Access José Souto's game cookbook and summer barbecue recipe section.

🫶🔥 To celebrate the new edition of "Venison The Game Larder by game expert @wild_food_boy we've teamed up with game suppliers @leanandwild to give you 25% discount off a @ckbk premium subscription!🔥🔥 The new edition of José Souto's cookbook includes a summer barbecue recipe section.Venison is experiencing an unprecedented growth in popularity with the British public as a delicious, healthy and increasingly available dish.In this new edition are over 50 recipes from Senior chef/Lecturer in Culinary Arts at @westminster_capitalcitycollege where José Souto gives masterclasses on preparation and game cookery to other chefs worldwide, as well as teaching a new generation of student chefs how to cook venison.🫶🫶 José...

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Eliminate garden pests the natural way... and benefit from better birdsong too!

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Eliminate garden pests the natural way... and benefit from better birdsong too!
If you like this view of the garden ecosystem and how you can take small steps to encourage songbirds into your gardens then you will enjoy John Miller's new book, One Day a Thousand Songs. The book provides practical advice on what you can do to encourage songbirds - successful breeding pairs - into your gardens. What to leave rough and wild and what to plant to create a haven for wildlife, especially insects. 

John's book is available via your local bookshop, or online from Merlin Unwin Books or Amazon. Paperback (£12)

https://merlinunwin.co.uk/collections/new-books/products/one-day-a-thousand-songs?variant=55466865131896

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A Garden Managed for Wildlife - Author John Miller takes us behind the scenes of his garden where his focus is on habitat for songbirds!

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A Garden Managed for Wildlife - Author John Miller takes us behind the scenes of his garden where his focus is on habitat for songbirds!

A Garden Managed for Wildlife - Author John Miller takes us behind the scenes of his garden where his focus is on habitat for songbirds! John is a wildlife expert and his passion for songbirds led him to make small changes to his garden that he hopes will inspire you to bring songbirds into your own garden and enjoy their song. You can follow John on social media, Substack and Conservation Communications. 

His new book, One Day a Thousand Songs is out now. A celebration of British birdsong and the English garden. 

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'This book is a delight. I shall return to it time and time again' - Review by Charles Moseley for One day a Thousand Songs by John Miller

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'This book is a delight. I shall return to it time and time again' - Review by Charles Moseley for One day a Thousand Songs by John Miller

A review from author and Cambridge Professor of English, Dr. Charles Moseley

One Day a Thousand Songs by John Miller 

'This book is a delight. I shall return to it time and time again, for it is one of those books that grows new subtleties the more you yourself learn to pay attention to that to which your author - your mentor - is pointing. Anyone who loves observing, sympathising (however anthropomorphically!) with the daily drama - sometimes tragedy, sometimes comedy, and both are set to the wild music of birdsong - of the garden, the countryside, and its birds will be grateful for so meticulous and sensitive a chronicler and narrator.

John Miller's writing more than once made me think of Gilbert White in its observation of the minute, easily missed, detail. His natural, easy style engages you from the first page, and there is much wisdom as well as love in these pages. I wished it longer. I would be proud to have written such a book, and it will have an honoured place on my shelves.

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A book for Dog Lovers - Special offer for 10 copies for £25

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A book for Dog Lovers - Special offer for 10 copies for £25

Send this book to all your friends who don't have dogs... and they will quickly be convinced that the time is right to take the plunge.
Anna Levin's moving poem about why we love our pet dogs is paired with dog photos on every page.

Gift giving sorted - SAVE £75! We are offering a limited time deal on this gift book via our website.

Buy 10 copies of the book for £25 with the code 'DOG' plus just £4 P&P flat rate (UK orders only).


If you are after just one copy visit Waterstones online where the book is available at £5/copy.

https://merlinunwin.co.uk/collections/new-books/products/my-friends-who-dont-have-dogs

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