Horatio Clare

The life of an Exmoor stockman reads like bloody-knuckled rural noir

Through her interviews with the exuberant countryman ‘Tommy’ Collard, Catrina Davies provides a vivid picture of nature in the raw

Stockman ‘Tommy’ Collard with a calf on Exmoor.
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  • Once Upon a Raven’s Nest: A Life on Exmoor in an Epoch of Change

    Catrina Davies

    riverrun, pp. 400, £18

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