Our terrible choice between treating our land responsibly and respectfully and worsening our food security by a significant factor, or carrying on down a road that destroys biodiversity, and leaves us entirely reliant on US agri-chemical suppliers to keep pumping more into the soil to keep it fertile, with the predictable effect on our rivers and wildlife. The lad’s a farmer, so this isn’t a hippy take on the issue, it is however a human heart and mind compressed into a couple of hundred pages.
I recommend wholeheartedly and without reservation.
Just finished House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz). This is an attempt to add to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon.
I enjoyed it greatly. The rhythm of the originals is there. The language is slightly less prissy/pedantic than ACD's style, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Holmes seems a bit less enigmatic and more kindly, which is also something I'm not quite sure about. I'm sufficiently naive to not realize what the Great Theme was till it was revealed; or maybe I did but was happy to suspend my disbelief.
I have his 'Moriarty'up next. Will enjoy the sun on my patio and make a start, I think.
I also bought his three James Bond books. I have read a couple of 'other author' Bond books, including one in which he'd given up the fags and the womanizing (License renewed, 1981 - just looked it up - don't bother!). I hope Horowitz has had the good sense to stick with the facts. Based on 'House of Silk' I suspect he has. In which case I may be in for a treat.....