FANS of the current TV series featuring Exmoor's Johnny Kingdom, will enjoy this book about one of Somerset's great characters.

Like the television series, the book is framed around the seasons. In each section there is an account of what Johnny might be doing in the season. In winter he is busy building a new home for badgers on his land, taking time out to film winter wading birds on the coast and exploring the woodlands for carpets of snow drops. In the spring he is filming the results of his badger house building with his co builder Bob and watching for the first signs of red deer shedding their antlers.

In summer he is out about, opening fetes and judging competitions, watching deer with their young and keeping an eye out for a family of little owls he’s been following. And in the autumn, a truly spectacular time on the moor, he is mixing cleaning out birds’ nest boxes on his land with filming the deer rut, the climax of the year on Exmoor.

Illustrated with photographs from Johnny and the author, and tracking Johnny Kingdom’s year on Exmoor, this exciting new book can be read either as a companion piece to the television series, or on its own as a characterful guide to exploring this unique landscape that Johnny calls home.

About the author: David Parker, lives in Bristol and is a television programme maker. He first discovered Exmoor in 1986 and he cannot keep away form the place. He has made more than 50 television documentaries about its history, landscape and wildlife.

Hardback, 144 pages, 214x230mm, profusely illustrated in colour throughout

Price: £14.99

ISBN: 978 0 85704 262 0

Imprint: Halsgrove