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Books with Birds in Them

  • Submitted: 18th July 2024

Books with Birds in Them

Birds are strange creatures – they can be really pretty like Kingfishers or creepy and foreboding like crows. When they appear in a novel, it’s always unsettling in some way. Here are a few novels with birds in them. What kind of birds and what do they represent?

Books and birds

 

The Miniaturist bookA parakeet

A lovely bird to start the list of with: – remember Peebo from The Miniaturist?

The Miniaturist

A magical story about a miniaturist who creates tiny models of real objects, people and animals. Nella comes to live in her new husband’s house in Amsterdam and brings with her, her pet parakeet.

Look at it on the cover in the cage….

 

 

And now for the crows…

Bird Spotting in a Small TownBird Spotting in a Small Town Sophie Morton-Thomas

Take care if you go to Norfolk anytime soon…..there are birds here. There are birds everywhere…

The story takes place in North Norfolk  –  this story fits perfectly with the remote and eery atmosphere of this part of the English coast. It’s very famous for bird watching and spotting seals and other creatures off the coast.

 

 

 

 

Wintering Stephen RuttGeese

The Wintering

The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one autumn, coinciding with the migration of thousands of pink-footed geese who spend their winter in the Firth. Thus began an extraordinary odyssey.

 

 

 

Death in the East Abir MukherjeeFor one of the most unsettling appearance of birds in a book….

Death in the East

As the novel opens, birds are flying to their deaths. No one can explain why they appear to be killing themselves on purpose in this way. It’s happening over a small area in the town and it’s very noticeable as it’s such a small and rural population.

Oh oh……

 

 

Some more creepy birds…..

The Storyteller by Anna Mazzola

The Storyteller by Anna Mazzola

The Story Keeper

Look and the cover and then read this line:

“Shrieking split the leaden sky and Audrey looked up to see a host of birds, their wings ink-black against the grey.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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