When Bill Oddie was growing up one of his favourite books was a collection of essays called The Bird-Lover&s Bedside Book His new book Bill Oddie Unplucked is just that sort of book It contains 50 of Bill&s essays magazines articles & blogs designed to be read in any order you want with each tale short enough to allow you to dip into something new every time you pick up the book whether you choose to read it in bed on the way to work during your lunch break in the doctor&s waiting room or on the loo Representing some of the very best of his writing & general musings of the last twenty years Bill Oddie Unplucked is generously illustrated with Bill&s own whimsical if artistically primitive drawings Inside these pages you&ll find tales of Bill trespassing in a nunnery being terrified by a Tiger wading in sewage paddling with dinosaurs slagging off the government & nearly drowning in both Costa Rica & the Seychelles There are of course some stories about birds