by Barry Hines
First published 2022
John Oldroyd is the gamekeeper on a Yorkshire estate, a job he's held for decades. But when the new landowner decides to sell the property, John must fight to preserve his home and the wildlife he's sworn to protect. As bulldozers threaten to plow over his cottage and the surrounding fields, John hatches a desperate plan to stop the development and save his life's work.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, contemporary, british-literature
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: man-vs-nature, man-vs-system
Setting: Yorkshire
Period: 20th-century
224 pages · Paperback · And Other Stories