AS WE move from the so-called season of mists and mellow fruitfulness into the colder and shorter days of winter, humans are not the only creatures preparing for the seasonal change generally marked by Halloween.

YOU wouldn’t really want to be a passenger in the car when Zoe Devlin’s doing the driving — she’d have you in the ditch, within minutes, one way or the other.

TWO new, outstanding nature books from Gill & Macmillan arrived in the post this week.