Hockley Clarke
Hockley Clarke was an English author and nature lover who began birding as a teenager in the trenches of WWI, listening for the song of the nightingale over the sound of machine guns. He went on to write numerous books about birds and for forty years edited the birding magazine Birds and Country.
Hockley Clarke
Foreword by Maria Popova
“Each page [is] a radiance of curiosity and kindness, the whole of it a bright assurance of the tenacity of life . . . To extend [friendship] across the barrier of biology and sentience, to another creature endowed with a wholly other consciousness, partakes of the miraculous.” —Maria Popova, from the Foreword
From Marginalian Editions comes a moving meditation on our connection with other creatures, told through the unforgettable story of a family of blackbirds sharing a birder’s backyard garden.
COMING JUN 23, 2026