News — Book review

We are very pleased to announce FOUR new book reviews on Fossil Insects, Spiders and Other Arachnids in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine. Snippets from the reviews are as follows (click any of the covers to read more reviews, see more info or to order your copy at a discount rate directly from the publisher): Deposits (2019, issue 57, page 23, edited snippets): “this book is intended to help fill the literature gap by providing an accessible introduction to some of the best preserved fossil insects from a wide range of deposits from around the world. It also covers...

The latest edition of Deposits Magazine has just landed on my desk and I am happy to report that two of our books are reviewed within its pages. They include or most recent title: A Guide to Fossil Collecting on the West Dorset Coast   Click the cover to go to the product page for more info and to order your copy   Deposits Magazine (2018, issue 56, page 43, snippets): This newly published guide is another near-perfect fossil book from Siri Scientific Press, who are rapidly becoming my favourite publisher of esoteric palaeontology. … As a guide for amateurs...

We are pleased to announce a nice new book review of our recent title: Fossils of Folkestone, Kent by Philip Hadland, which has just been published in Deposits Magazine, 2018 (Number 55, page 19 – snippets): This guide has an advantage over others – this and others all have marvellous full colour illustrations of the relevant Gault fossils, but as anyone who has struggled over the boulders from the end of the concrete harbour to Copt Point will know, there is a lot of Greensand, containing marvellous and multitudinous trace fossils … and around the corner in East Wear Bay...

We are very pleased to announce an excellent new book review of our recent title: Trilobites of the British Isles, which has just been published in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine, 2018 (Number 55, page 13 – snippets follow): … this illustrated (in colour) modern overview of the trilobites of Great Britain and Ireland is the first ever… with almost 800 photographic images of British and Irish trilobites, from both historically important collections and newly collected material … There are overviews and locality data of classic and less well-known locations, with discussions of their specific faunas … The book...

We are very pleased to announce that a new book review of our forthcoming title: Trilobites of the British Isles by Robert Kennedy and Sinclair Stammers has just been published on the American Museum of Natural History Trilobite Website (April 2018; some abridged snippets follow): … when all is said-and-done, perhaps no country on Earth can match Great Britain in terms of either its ground-breaking academic pursuit of the subject, or its available trilobite resources. Written by noted trilobite collector/researcher Dr. Robert Kennedy, with the able assistance of photographer Sinclair Stammers, this highly informative, richly illustrated, 384-page volume goes to...