Eco-fascism is a modern-day ideology, fuelled by the internet, but its roots are deep – and often forgotten.

A memoir of pigeon-keeping and middle-class life in flux, Jon Day’s ‘Homing’ is a sort of ‘P Is For Pigeon’.

We have always believed in the healing power of our natural landscape, one way or another – but has it been overstated?

This is a book about gulls, but it’s a good deal else, too: it’s an exploration of waste, a rummaging, bent double and elbows-deep, in human detritus.

They are haunted by visions. They are visited by strange dreams. They are the nature writers, and they bring us wisdom from the wilderness.