A good field guide and/or reference book is essential for anyone with an interest in nature. How can you build up knowledge about something if you don't know what it is?

Bookshops can offer a bewildering choice for popular groups such as birds. In these cases it is useful to have some guidance. For more specialist groups, such as Hoverflies, the problem is finding any book that can offer useful identication information. The books listed on these pages are my recommendations, having collected a small library over the years!

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