October is one of those funny months. It is the longest, only by an hour mind, and the darker evenings should mean that I can more read. But this month I didn’t. I only read 10 books in October, but a couple of them,, (and a half) were seriously chunky books. There were the books that I did read:
Books Read
Citadel – Kate Mosse – 3 Stars
Still Life in Milford: Poems – Thomas Lynch – 3 Stars
Brazilian Adventure – Peter Fleming – 4 Stars
All My Wild Mothers: A Memoir Of Motherhood, Loss And An Apothecary Garden – Victoria Bennet – 4 Stars
Empordan Scafarlata – Adrià Pujol Cruells Tr. Douglas Suttle – 3 Stars
The Rosewater Redemption – Tade Thompson – 4.5 Stars
Hagstone – Sinéad Gleeson – 3.5 Stars
Island to Island: From Somerset to Seychelles – Sally Mills – 4 Stars
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments Into Extraordinary Results – Shane Parrish – 2.5 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain – Corrine Fowler – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 32
Travel – 28
Natural History – 13
Poetry – 10
Memoir – 9
Science Fiction – 7
Miscellaneous – 4
History – 4
Food & Drink – 3
Humour – 3
Top Publishers
Bloomsbury – 7
Vintage – 5
Picador – 4
Eland – 4
Canongate – 4
Summersdale – 4
Faber & Faber – 3
Jonathan Cape – 3
Orbit – 3
Orion – 3
Review Copies Received
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen – Edward Parnell (Ed)
The Weird Tales of Dorothy K Haynes – Dorothy K. Haynes
The Haunted Trail: Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird – Weird Walk (Ed)
Library Books Checked Out
It’s A Gas: The Magnificent And Elusive Elements That Expand Our World – Mark Miodownik
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding – Eoghan Daltun
Tickbox – David Boyle
Hagstone – Sinéad Gleeson
Books Bought
Band on the Bus: Around the World in a Double-Decker – Richard King (Signed)
One Thousand Feasts – Nigel Slater (Signed)
England: A Natural History – John Lewis-Stempel (Signed)
Airplane Mode: Travels in the Ruins of Tourism – Shahnaz Habib
Notebook – Tom Cox (Signed)
Talking to the Neighbours: Conversations in a Country Parish – Ronald Blythe
Lost To The Sea: A Journey Round The Edges Of Britain And Ireland – Lisa Woollett
Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe – Bill & Laurel Cooper
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Dorset Witches – Rodney Legg & Olive Knott
Dorset Ghost Stories – Richard Holland
The Story of a Non-marrying Man and Other Stories – Doris Lessing
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm – Rosamud Young
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown – Shaun Bythell (Signed)
Island Of The Colour Blind And Cycad Island – Oliver Sacks
Wainwright’s TV Walks – Alfred Wainwright
So are there any from that list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
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