Reviews of books related to Devon.
Stewart Brown, The Medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund’s Church, and Excavation of Waterfront Houses, Exeter. Devon Archaeological Society Monograph 1, Devon Archaeological Society, 2019. 195pp. 95 figs. ISBN 978-0-9527899-1-8 (softback £15), 978-0-9527899-2-5 (hardback £22)....
Sarah Bunker, The Asian Hornet Handbook. Psocid Press, 2019. 157 pp. ISBN: 978-1-9160871-0-1 (softback £16). British honeybees and beekeepers have had a troublesome few decades with a succession of predators and diseases arriving, attacking...
Ellie Babbedge, The Bidlakes of Bridestowe. Exeter: Short Run Press, 2018. 98 pp. one colour plate and B&W illustrations. The Bidlakes of Bridestowe, as its title suggests, is an account of an ancient Devon...
Peter Beacham (editor), Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture (Merrell, London. New York, 2017), 272 pages, 275 colour and b&w illustrations. Hardback with jacket. ISBN 978 1 8589 4650 4. £60.00 UK. This beautiful...
Todd Gray and Sue Jackson, St Martin’s Island. An introductory history of forty-two Exeter buildings. The Mint Press, Exeter, 2017, 192 pp, full colour illustrations, £15.00, pbk, ISBN 978 1 903356–71–5 As flames engulfed...
The Recent Past by James Ravilious, £30 hardback; James Ravilious – A Life by Robin Ravilious, £16.99 hardback; both published by Wilmington Square Books, an imprint of Bitter Lemon Press, 2017. Nearly twenty years after his...