Another month rolls by and as January always takes so long to get through, I almost forgot about posting this! I saw a post a little while back about #ReadIndies a February project to read some of the amazing books on your TBR from the Independent Presses that we are still so lucky to have in this country. It is being co-hosted by Kaggsy’s and Lizzy’s Literary Life. Whilst it is aimed at getting people to read from publishers who have five employees or less, I have stretched it a little to include Unbound and Bloomsbury!
So here are my book for February’s TBR:
Reading Through The Year
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year Ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
A Cloud a Day Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Still Reading
Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird Ed. Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf
Other Books
Cold Fish Soup Adam Farrer
Other Books As the Women Lay Dreaming Donald S. Murray
Other Books Aromabingo David Gaffney
Other Books The Museum of Cathy Anna Stothard
Review Books
All Around The Year Michael Morpurgo
Where Furnaces Burn Joel Lane
Minor Monuments Ian Maleney
The Christian Watt Papers: Memoirs of a Fraserburgh Fishwife Christian Watt, Ed. David Fraser
The Narrow Smile: A Journey back to the Northwest Frontier Peter MayneReview Books The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Barnaby Rogerson
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End Ed. Joan Passey
Library Books
Apple Island Wife: Slow Living In Tasmania Fiona Stocker
The Only Gaijin In The Village Iain Maloney
One Thousand Shades Of Green: A Year In Search Of Britain’s Wild Plants Mike Dilger
Footprints In The Woods: The Secret Life Of Forest And Riverbank John Lister-Kaye
Poetry
The Hero and the Girl Next Door Sophie Hannah
Cold Fish Soup and Minor Monuments have been on my radar for a while – will be interested in what you think of them. I’ve also heard good things about Joel Lane. Another interesting selection 🙂
Thank you, Jackie. I was given Cold Fish Soup so am more than happy to pass it on
That’s an impressive TBR – look forward to seeing what you choose from it!!
Thank you. The intention is to read most of them!
Nice list! The very small indie publishers thing is only their theme, any indies are allowed – I have some Faber and OUP in my pile, and am reading a Canongate at the moment, although I’ve also done one from a micro-publisher and also have some Unbound books if I get time …
Thank you. I did think that, but have tried to go for proper independent. I think Bloomsbury is still independent too, hence why I have one on the list