Author:Charles Clover
We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished. If nothing is done to stop the squandering of fish stocks the life of the oceans will face collapse and millions of people could starve.
Fish is the aspirational food for Western society, the healthy, weight-conscious choice, but those who eat and celebrate fish often ignore the fact that the fishing industry, although as technologically advanced as space travel, has an attitude to conservation 10,000 years out of date. Trawling on an industrial scale in the North Sea takes 16 lbs of dead marine animals to produce just 1lb of sole. Regulation isn't working, fishermen must cheat or lose money, dolphins and other wildlife (seabirds, turtles, sharks) are killed unnecessarily and fish stocks are collapsing despite the warnings.
The End of the Line looks at the problem and proves that we, as consumers, have to change if the situation is to improve.
A blazingly powerful indictment
—— Sunday TelegraphIt is a rare book that changes one's life, even in a small way ... Charles Clover has written a shocking book about the effects of industrial fishing
—— Andrew Marr , Start the Week, Radio 4Anyone with the slightest interest in where our fish comes from, and the devastating effects of our voracious appetite for it, should read this
—— Tom Parker-Bowles , Mail on SundayDevastating - a succinct and powerful crash course on the pressing environmental issues surrounding fish that should send consumer awareness soaring
—— Daily MailEntertaining, outrageous and a must-read for anyone who cares about the sea and its denizens
—— Times Higher Educational SupplementHugely important book
—— BBC WildlifeThis is an issue which needs populist exposure. Clover has done it admirably - a brilliant exposition
—— Owen Paterson MP , The SpectatorAnyone who loves to eat fish will be fascinated, appalled and challenged by this book
—— John Gummer , Country LifeFuture Crimes deserves a prominent place in our front-line library
—— Ed Burns, co-creator of The WireThe question I am most often asked in my lectures is 'what's the next big crime?' The answer is in this book.
—— Frank Abagnale, New York Times bestselling author of Catch Me if You CanA masterful page-turner that warns of a hundred worst case scenarios you've never thought of, while also - thank goodness - offering bold and clever strategies to thwart them
—— PW Singer, author of Wired for WarFuture Crimes is the Must Read Book of the Year.
—— Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell is HumanMore than a tribute to a rare and doughty tribe. If hills could speak, this is surely a tale the fells would tell
—— Horatio Clare , TelegraphAn enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life
—— Brian Viner , Daily MailMay well do for sheep what Helen Macdonald did for hawks
—— Stephen Moss , GuardianPunchy, well-read and occasionally lyrical... a glorious book, alive with the author's voice, which is strong and individual, as befits a man who makes a living in this ancient but precarious way. Most striking is its honesty
—— Herald ScotlandRebanks offers a fascinating account of his life in farming that is in equal parts memoir, social commentary and procedural. Even for the most committed urbanite, it's a brilliant read
—— Alexander Larman , ObserverJames Rebanks's unsentimental, sharply detailed memoir about his life as a shepherd gripped me from the first page
—— Moira Hodgson , Wall Street JournalA timely and important book, with flashes of beauty in its spare and honest prose
—— Sadie Jones, author of The OutcastIn James Rebanks we hear a new voice from the fells. The toil and the beauty in The Shepherd's Life are utterly compelling
—— Nicholas Crane, author of CoastA vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life
—— Lucy Dillon, author of A Hundred Pieces of MeThe Shepherd's Life is a reader's delight. No tourist wandering the iconic Lake District is Rebanks; coming from centuries of farmers he is as 'hefted' to the fells as the Herdwick sheep he keeps. He lives, breathes and works his landscape - which gives him an inside edge as sharp as shears over most of the flock of current countryside-writers. Rebanks has written a marvellous autobiography - of himself, his family, and the hills themselves. For they are indivisible
—— John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandWhat came through was the stolid humility, gentle stubbornness and genuine care you need to live this life. Many books are written about a thing but this book is of a thing and is valuable for it
—— Cynan Jones, author of The DigThe Shepherd's Life is that rare thing, a well-written book about the life of the land by a man who gets his living from the land. It's a paean for a peopled landscape, and a powerful counterblast to the doleful environmentalism that would empty our land of its people
—— Philip Walling, author of Counting SheepBeautifully written
—— Alan Cumming, actor and author of Not My Father's SonIrreverent, honest, achingly beautiful and totally authentic. Rebanks challenges us to understand what would be lost if no one remembers the seasons of a shepherd's life or the culture of sheep farming. His joy is as contagious as his writing
—— Linda Lear, author of Beatrix Potter: The extraordinary life of a Victorian geniusTruly extraordinary... written with a mastery of vivid, concrete detail that makes you gasp
—— WI LifeA wonderful book which will surely become a Lake District classic. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, it provides a vivid insight into the realities of hill farming life
—— Angus J L Winchester, Professor of Local & Landscape History, Lancaster UniversityA gorgeous book, unsentimental but exultant, vivid and profound, and a fierce defense of small-scale farming
—— Maryn McKenna , National GeographicA beautifully told tale suffused by a profound sense of belonging and a clear-eyed love of the land and its people.
—— Sunday Morning HeraldHis prose is earthed and conversational; it feels as if you're leaning over a gate, listening to his ruminations. The book exudes tough passion, and a sense of belonging and love that holds you rapt to the very last line
—— Intelligent LifeWhat a great idea this is...a masterpiece of time, distance, palm trees, frosty mornings, lofty ambition and self-effacing charm
—— MonocleA fascinating book that ought to put flight in a new light for many people
—— Nautilus International TelegraphMasterly, beautifully written book
—— Alexander Frater , The Times Literary SupplementAlive with the joy of everything from takeoff…to the dream-like quality of flight itself
—— Tony Parsons , GQMarvelously literate… If [Vanhoenacker’s] book had been around in the mid-‘80s, I suspect I wouldn’t have been afraid to fly in the first place
—— Dwight Garner , New York TimesIn the pages of his book…you will find yourself agreeing that “The ordinary things we thought we knew…becomes more beautiful”
—— Michael Kerr , IndependentCommendably, the technical aspects are outlined in a straightforward, accessible manner, while overall the book demonstrates that aviation has lost none of its appeal
—— Good Book GuideA lovely memoir
—— Gulliver , The EconomistFor anyone who wishes to get a pilot’s insight into what it’s really like to notch up thousands of miles and hours… – you won’t find a much more passionate account than this one
—— Elinor Evans , Flyer[Vanhoenacker] invites readers with him on to the flight deck, describing the minutiae of flight with a degree of detail that would be nerdy were it not for the poetry of his writing
—— Tom Robbins , Financial TimesAs you battle with the cramped legroom in economy class, [Vanhoenacker’s] view of aviation may just transport you
—— Robbie Millen , The Times[An] elegant meditation on being an airline pilot
—— John Lanchester , Guardian[Vanhoenacker] wants us to fall in love with flying again
—— Damian Whitworth , The TimesA highly readable account, as moving as it is unexpected, of what flying means, by an airline pilot with a gift for words. Antoine de Saint-Exupery lives again
—— Economist[This] airborne odyssey of a book is enthralling, from the physics of lift and the vicissitudes of flight paths to the aura borealis and the pristine sunsets. Read it and you’ll request a window seat every time you fly
—— Caroline Sanderson , Sunday ExpressThis mesmerising book will make you view the world differently
—— Helen Davies , The TimesFew people have captured the fascination of flying as well as U.S. journalist and pilot Mark Vanhoenacker.
—— Lufthansa MagazineDelves deeply into the magic and beauty of flight. An elegant writer with a sharp eye and a literary mind, Vanhoenacker… Writes about flight on an emotional and spiritual level, how it makes him feel to soar above the Earth while watching the landscape pass below.
—— Kent German , CNETHe spins a curious and articulate exploration of flying.
—— GuardianVanhoenacker’s calm and scrupulously composed prose style is soothing… Vanhoenacker manages to make flying seem exciting again.
—— Alexander Larman , ObserverA beautiful, contemplative book… What Skyfaring gives is something we need: elevation; another perspective… Normally when I find a volume where prose style and subject matter fuse so pleasingly, I tear through it in a day. Here, I found myself pausing on almost every page, as I absorbed its detail or phrasing.
—— Nicholas Lezard , GuardianHere is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers all too easily take for granted.
—— IA writer of exquisite prose, fascinated both by the technical and mystical aspects of flight... In every line of this lovely book, there is something beautiful and strange.
—— Jane Shilling , Daily MailThis is the best book I've ever read on the subject... It's one of the best travel books I've ever read... Superb.
—— William Leith , Evening StandardAn unexpectedly lyrical memoir on a fascinating subject… Skyfaring will give you a delightfully fresh perspective on the wonder that is air travel.
—— Kate Slotover , RiddleIt’s calm, poetic and riveting… Fascinating.
—— National Geographic TravellerHe writes beautifully about the strange, alien world of high-altitude passenger flights… Vanhoenacker loves flying and communicates beautifully its marvels and mysteries.
—— Peter McKay , Daily Mail, Book of the YearI loved this fabulous insight into the secret world of the sky.
—— Melanie Reid , The Times, Book of the YearA brilliant, chunky, study of genes.
—— William Leith , Evening StandardThis book captures the progression from that intuitive sense of genetics to its birth as a veritable science and, for better or for worse, its evolution into a powerful tool… The book ends not with a conclusion, but with a feeling of anticipation… In many ways, The Gene is a call for caution and for a thoughtful consideration of the possibilities that progress may bring… When genes become tools, what will those tools be used for? As we try to answer that question, Mukherjee’s book asks us to carefully look back before we continue to move forward
—— Claire McDaniel & Daniel Marchalik , British Medical JournalA comprehensive – and gripping – history of the gene
—— Emma Finamore , Memo