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The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture

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Early in life

Simon Barnes: On the Marsh [2019] hardback GAEIL its sorrow textured by theHow the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even closer to home. When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto an area of marshy land only increased the possibilities, but there was always the fear that it might end up in the wrong hands and be lost to