Merlin Unwin Books

Merlin Unwin Books Britain's finest publisher of countryside books! Established in 1990, Merlin Unwin Books is based in the market town of Ludlow in Shropshire.

Merlin Unwin Books Ltd is a dynamic UK company dedicated to publishing high quality countryside, wildlife, fieldsports and fishing books, written by leaders in their fields. We offer friendly, personal customer service and because we have our own distribution service (based in Ludlow) we can promise to despatch your books within three days, often sooner (during the Christmas period books are despatched within 48 hours).

British waters are full of seasonal, sustainable seafood. CJ Jackson, Head of Billingsgate Seafood School, has written a...
18/12/2025

British waters are full of seasonal, sustainable seafood. CJ Jackson, Head of Billingsgate Seafood School, has written a book that celebrates them all - through recipes, stories, facts and photos.

These recipes don’t just taste good, they do good! A shocking 80% of British seafood is exported. So much fresh fish, crustaceans and molluscs that we used to eat and that is now overlooked. Fish such as Megrim, Rock salmon, Witch, Sardines, Coley, Po***ck and much more!

CJ and photographer Steve Lee teamed up to celebrate our rich coastal heritage and teach readers how to eat the very best of British Seafood from across the UK. The Great British Seafood Revival (£25 OUT NOW)

Photo: Steve Lee, in the Great British Seafood Revival of The Crystal Sea coming into port.

Take on the Icelandic practice of exchanging books on Christmas Eve - we can’t think of a better tradition. 🧡 📚
18/12/2025

Take on the Icelandic practice of exchanging books on Christmas Eve - we can’t think of a better tradition. 🧡 📚

Wonderful to see CJ Jackson’s Great British Seafood Revival made best cookbooks of 2025 shortlist 🧡 thank you Jenny!
17/12/2025

Wonderful to see CJ Jackson’s Great British Seafood Revival made best cookbooks of 2025 shortlist 🧡 thank you Jenny!

Win a copy of CJ Jackson's Great British Seafood Revival https://fishingnews.co.uk/competitions/win-great-british-seafoo...
17/12/2025

Win a copy of CJ Jackson's Great British Seafood Revival

https://fishingnews.co.uk/competitions/win-great-british-seafood-revival/

Accessible and engaging, this beautifully produced 288-page hardback is both a celebration and a call to change our seafood culture and attitudes. It opens with a foreword by NFFO chief executive Mike Cohen, and that sets the tone: it is a manifesto for, in the words of its first section, ‘Learning to love British’, setting out the benefits – culinary and otherwise – of exploring the many lesser-known species landed by UK boats.

The only present under the tree for owners and their pets… Anna Levin’s celebration of our four legged friends. My Frien...
16/12/2025

The only present under the tree for owners and their pets… Anna Levin’s celebration of our four legged friends.

My Friends who don’t have Dogs 🐕 a moving poem about what dogs mean to their owners and a book that convinces anyone on the fence why a dog is for them!

Are you looking for a challenge in 2026, something that gets you out in the and suits your timeline... Land’s End to J...
15/12/2025

Are you looking for a challenge in 2026, something that gets you out in the and suits your timeline...

Land’s End to John O’Groats by Helen Shaw is for you! Her book documents her journey walking the length of Britain in 7 stages with her husband Bob.

Completed in 7 stages over 81 days, she proved that the iconic route is suitable for walkers of all abilities. Helen also gives route options depending on where you live in the UK, covering the East and West routes from North to South.

Take on the challenge! Buy the book now and start planning your own 2026!

Available from CJ Jackson’s Great British Seafood Revival (£25) the perfect gift for seafood lovers and anyone curious ...
15/12/2025

Available from CJ Jackson’s Great British Seafood Revival (£25) the perfect gift for seafood lovers and anyone curious about our coastal waters. A call to enjoying more seasonal, sustainable British seafood.

12/12/2025

Household remedies for common ailments from Kitchen Medicine

• Create natural remedies
• How to buy and store ingredients
• A reference list by ailment

Our kitchen shelves are full of remedies for all sorts of illnesses and accidents. This book shares familiar but often overlooked ingredients to stave off a cold and boost immunity - without a trip to the GP!

We think it is time to revive the disappearing tradition of using your pantry as your pharmacy.

We have plenty of horse-focused books, ranging from racing to horseback adventures, poetry to a sporting thriller set at...
10/12/2025

We have plenty of horse-focused books, ranging from racing to horseback adventures, poetry to a sporting thriller set at a livery yard. Call us to order today or browse our website.

Review from Racing Post’s The Front Runner Chris Cook
‘Immensely readable, entertaining and informative from beginning to end.’

David Ashforth has a distinct witty and dry sense of humour. His book, Ashforth's Curiosities of Horseracing, is comprised of short stories that are all meticulously researched and very entertaining... he writes of his book:

'A sport based on one animal sitting on top of another and trying (usually) to be the first pair to reach a wooden stick is a curiosity in itself. So it’s no surprise that horseracing is full of curiosities. The curiosities in this collection have been chosen to arouse interest. They are stories of those curious creature – people, and of horses'.

How are you doing with present buying this year? Ahead of the game, or not yet started? Our team is happy to help if you...
10/12/2025

How are you doing with present buying this year? Ahead of the game, or not yet started?

Our team is happy to help if you need book suggestions for friends and family.

We have books on nature, wildflowers, foraging and wildlife, game cookery, memoirs, horseracing, flyfishing and fly tying books. Little gift books that make good stocking fillers or perfect books for grandchildren to learn collective nouns and animal idioms.

Shropshire, Cumbria, Northamptonshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Ely and The Fens, and the Pennines (and more) feature in our regional fact and photography books. What will you try?

A lovely cookbook review in (Dec issue) by Irini Tzortzoglou, BBC MasterChef Champion 2019. ‘The book is at once a manu...
05/12/2025

A lovely cookbook review in (Dec issue) by Irini Tzortzoglou, BBC MasterChef Champion 2019.

‘The book is at once a manual for handling fish with confidence, a manifesto for eating more adventurously and sustainably, and a storybook peppered with humour and hard statistics. Above all, it is an invitation to fall back in love with British seafood’.

CJ Jackson's Great British Seafood Revival is out now (£25) from your local bookshop, via Merlin Unwin Books (£5 off orders over £40 use code MUB5) website or online sales.

Here is a recipe from CJ Jackson, and a photo of her hosting one of her brilliant cookery classes at Billingsgate. CJ co...
04/12/2025

Here is a recipe from CJ Jackson, and a photo of her hosting one of her brilliant cookery classes at Billingsgate. CJ cooked several dishes from her new book, the Great British Seafood Revival.

In the class she described the many sustainable species that we have in the UK and why we need to be more flexible in what we are eating to avoid the massive export of British seafood (a shocking 80% of our national catch currently goes abroad).

In her recipes for Rock Salmon she said - 'Some fish stir-fry well: rock salmon, turbot and monkfish all hold their shape well and are less likely to disintegrate on cooking'.

We love the innovative recipes in this book and her wealth of knowledge on what is British, sustainable and seasonal and how to cook it.

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