Duncan Mackay (author)

Duncan Mackay’s Bizarre Berkshire in the Henley Standard – again!

Posted on February 6, 2012 by admin

February 6, 2012 The Henley Standard has covered another of the stories from Duncan Mackay’s A to Z collection of strange and true tales of people and events in Berkshire (Bizarre Berkshire): that of the shrine of Our Lady of … Continue reading →

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Duncan Mackay’s Bizarre Berkshire in the Henley Standard

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

January 23, 2012 The Henley Standard has covered one of the stories from Duncan Mackay’s A to Z collection of strange and true tales of people and events in Berkshire (Bizarre Berkshire): that of Thomas Day, who believed that people … Continue reading →

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Review: Ghost Club reviews Duncan Mackay’s Bizarre Berkshire

Posted on December 16, 2011 by admin

2/12/11 This review is to be published in a forthcoming newsletter of The Ghost Club. BIZARRE BERKSHIRE by DUNCAN MacKAY, published 2012 by Two Rivers Press, 7 Denmark Road, Reading RG1 5PA Pb. 103 pages, scraperboard illustrations by Sally Castle. … Continue reading →

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Friday, 2 December, 2011 at 15:00: author, Duncan Mackay on BBC Radio Berkshire

Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin

_________________________________________________________ Duncan Mackay, author of ‘The Secret Thames’ (1992), ‘Apples, Berkshire, Cider’ (1996), ‘Eat Wild’ (2010), and Bizarre Berkshire (2011), will be interviewed on The Sarah Walker show (with Susanne Courtney sitting in), on BBC Radio Berkshire at 15:00, on … Continue reading →

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22 October 2011 – Apple Day at MERL

Posted on October 4, 2011 by admin

Duncan MacKay’s book ABC book “Apples, Berkshire, Cider” will be featured at MERL’s Apple Day. The event is part of Common Ground’s annual celebration of apples and orchards, will include tastings of different varieties of apples, chutneys and apple juice, … Continue reading →

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The Yorkshire Post talks to Duncan Mackay about Eat Wild

Posted on April 28, 2010 by admin

Duncan Mackay talks about his new book, Eat Wild, in the Yorkshire Post “All food comes from ‘somewhere’ and the food in Eat Wild comes from somewhere near you,” continues Duncan. “It celebrates food inches not food miles. It encourages … Continue reading →

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The Sunday Sun talks to Duncan Mackay about Eat Wild

Posted on April 25, 2010 by admin

Excerpted from interview with Duncan in the Sunday Sun. Going wild in the country kitchen Apr 25 2010 by Tom Mullen, Sunday Sun FORGET fast food . . . why not forage for “feral food” in the North countryside? That’s … Continue reading →

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Duncan Mackay is the author of The Secret Thames, a cultural journey along the Thames from source to sea, published by Ebury in 1990; and, Apples, Berkshire, Cider, an A–Z guide to the lost knowledge of Berkshire apples and all things pomological and ciderish, published by Two Rivers Press in 1996. He is currently writing the manuscript for Long, Slow and Wiggly, a cross-section of UK life as experienced on a folding bicycle following the longest straight line in Britain: from the Isle of Wight to Cape Wrath. He is a regular contributor to ecos, the magazine of the British Association of Nature Conservationists. In 1996 he was awarded the Henry Ford European Award for Conservation. Duncan was Commodore of Henley Sailing Club from 2004–2006, and currently works for Natural England.