April is already here, how did that happen? Without further ado, I am aiming to read around 18 of these over the coming month. Also will be reading some fiction as I have so far not read any this year!
Reading Through The Year
A Poem for Every Night of the Year – Allie Esiri
Word Perfect – Susie Dent
Finishing Off (Still!)
Opened Ground Poems 1966 – 1996 Seamus Heaney
The Turkish Embassy Letters – Mary Wortley Montagu
Who Are We Now? -Jason Cowley
The Year the World Went Mad – Mark Woolhouse
Hope and Fear – Ronald H. Fritze
Review Copies
Tomorrow’s People – Paul Morland
The Seven Deadly Sins – Mara Faye Lethem
One People – Guy Kennaway
The Hill of Devi – E.M. Forster
Three Women of Herat – Veronica Doubleday
The Sloth Lemur’s Song – Alison Richard
Where My Feet Fall – Duncan Minshull
Polling UnPacked – Mark Pack
Fledgling – Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Jacobé & Fineta – Joaquim Ruyra
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – Jonny Muir
The Good Life: Up the Yukon Without a Paddle – Dorian Amos
Astral Travel Elizabeth Baines
Britain Alone – Philip Stephens
We Own This City – Justin Fenton
Spaceworlds – Ed. Mike Ashley
The Power of Geography – Tim Marshall
The Four Horsemen – Emily Mayhew
The Spy Who Was Left Out In The Cold – Tim Tate
The Devil You Know – Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
Letters from Egypt – Lucie Duff Gordon
Crawling Horror – Ed. Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf
The Valleys of the Assassins – Freya Stark
The Cruel Way – Ella Maillart
Above the Law – Adrian Bleese
Cornish Horrors – Ed. Joan Passey
Somebody Else – Charles Nicholl
Scenes from Prehistoric Life – Francis Pryor
Black Lion – Sicelo Mbatha
The Babel Message – Keith Kahn-Harris
The Heath – Hunter Davies
Library
The Nanny State Made Me – Stuart Maconie
12 Birds to Save Your Life – Charlie Corbett
Seed To Dust – Marc Hamer
No Friend But The Mountains – Behrouz Boochani
Umbria – Patricia Clough
Poetry
Ariel – Sylvia Plath
Kid – Simon Armatage
Books to Clear
Our Game – John Le Carré
The Tailor of Panama- John Le Carré
Year of the Golden Ape – Colin Forbes
Dreaming in Code – Scott Rosenberg
Secret Bristol – James MacVeigh
Challenge Books
The Wood That Made London – C.J. Schuler
English Pastoral – James Rebanks
Wild Silence Raynor Winn
Photobook
Mysterious Britain – Homer W. Sykes
So, er, that is it. Inevitably there will be library books that have to be read as others have reserved them. Either way, I win!
Any in that list that you like the look of?
I’m reading Wild Silence at the moment, it’s my readalong with my best friend so a few chapters a week over a few months. It’s good but pretty raw in places and they don’t travel around as much as I thought they did. But it’s fascinating on the writing and reception of The Salt Path. I have English Pastoral, too. Happy reading!
I have had a copy for ages and just not got to read it yet. I have met her and Moth and one of the Wainwright prizes and she is lovely.