John McEwen

Bird of ill omen

Truman Capote’s bird eventually revealed a vast cache of stolen objects – carefully concealed behind a library edition of Jane Austen

issue 24 March 2018

  • A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven

    Joe Shute

    Bloomsbury, pp. 272

With bird books the more personal the better. Joe Shute was once a crime correspondent and is today a Telegraph senior staff feature writer. It is his investigative journalism, a series of meetings with people who deal with ravens first-hand, which provides novelty. Historical, mythological and other diversions add ballast.

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