About the Author

Roger Morgan-Grenville was a soldier from 1978-86 and later helped to set up the charity Help for Heroes, acting as its first head fundraiser. He is also the author of Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey (Icon, 2020).

Reviews

Charming and impassioned ... a rich tribute to an extraordinary bird.
*Horatio Clare, author of A Single Swallow and Heavy Light*

A truly lovely book.
*Mary Colwell, author of Curlew Moon*

This is wonderful: written with light and love. A tonic for these times.
*Stephen Rutt, author of The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds*

A delightful account of a lifelong passion for seabirds.
*Stephen Moss, naturalist and author of The Swallow: A Biography*

A memoir lit by wry humour and vivid prose.
*Brian Jackman, author of Wild About Britain*

This is a book that birders will enjoy because it is stitched together around a fairly amazing bird, but if you've never heard of shearwaters you will still get a lot out of this book if you are interested in nature, in adventures, in foreign parts, in landscapes or in people ... a very good read.
*Mark Avery*

A great read
*birdwatching.co.uk*

[A] lovely blend of natural history and memoir ... Morgan-Grenville beautifully blends science, memories, and wonder in this striking homage to an amazing bird.
*Booklist*

Shearwater is sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe
*Daily Mail*

A captivating mix of memoir, travel and ornithological obsession ... A book not just for seabirders or island-addicts, but for all who have ever gazed longingly out to sea and pondered vast possibilities and connections.
*BBC Wildlife magazine*

[A] pleasant mixture of facts and an imagined narrative of the shearwater ... readers will enjoy relaxing into the story.
*Library Journal*

A book that delights, informs, amuses and concerns you page by page
*Winchester Today*

'Morgan-Grenville is a delightful writer ... his writerly tone here is perfect: serious, but not hysterical or preachy, with a gleam of hope evident.'
*10,000birds.com*

'A beautiful mix of memoir and natural history ... entirely infectious.'
*Scottish Field*