I am very late in posting this as I have been away to Jersey and came back last weekend. And then have been busy doing lots of other things this week.
Anyway, July was a good reading month, with two books making my book of the month
Books Read
Circles And Tangents: Art In The Shadow Of Cranborne Chase – Vivienne Mary Light – 4 Stars
The Bedlam Stacks – Natasha Pulley – 2 Stars
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley – 3 Stars
Don’t Look Now – Daphne du Maurier – 2 Stars
One August Night – Victoria Hislop – 2.5 Stars
The Last Dance And Other Stories – Victoria Hislop – 2.5 Stars
Blood Storm – Colin Forbes – 3 Stars
The Mermaid of Black Conch – Monique Roffey – 3.5 Stars
Himself – Jess Kidd – 3.5 Stars
Elowen: A Story of Grief and Love – William Henry Searle – 4 Stars
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World – Fred Pearce – 3.5 Stars
Out For Air – Olly Todd – 3 Stars
We, Robots: Staying Human In The Age Of Big Data – Curtis White – 2.5 Stars
Venice: The Lion, The City And The Water – Cees Nooteboom – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
La Vie: A Year In Rural France – John Lewis-Stempel – 4.5 Stars
The Swimmer: The Wild Life Of Roger Deakin – Patrick Barkham – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 18
Natural History – 15
Travel – 15
Poetry – 10
Memoir – 8
History – 6
Science Fiction – 6
Fantasy – 5
Art – 3
Photography – 3
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 8
Bloomsbury – 5
Penguin – 4
Little Toller – 4
Simon & Schuster – 4
Monoray – 3
Chatto & Windus – 3
William Collins – 3
Doubleday – 3
Michael Joseph – 3
Review Copies Received
Walking The Wharfe: An Ode to a Yorkshire River – Johno Ellison
A Fenland Garden: Creating a haven for people, plants and wildlife in the Lincolnshire Fens – Francis Pryor
The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird – Ed. Zara-Louise Stubbs
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny – Ed. Fiona Snailham
Library Books Checked Out
A Flat Place: A Memoir – Noreen Masud
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, And Why It Matters – Oliver Franklin-Wallis
One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts And The Story Of Life On Earth – Mark Cocker
The Invention Of Essex: The Making Of An English County – Tim Burrows
Borderland: A Journey Through The History Of Ukraine – Anna Reid
Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature And Not Getting Better – Polly Atkin
Ravenous: How To Get Ourselves And Our Planet Into Shape – Henry Dimbleby
The Only Gaijin In The Village – Iain Maloney
One Thousand Shades Of Green: A Year In Search Of Britain’S Wild Plants – Mike Dilger
Where The Seals Sing – Susan Richardson
Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank – John Lister-Kaye
Books Bought
Wayfinding: The Art And Science Of How We Find And Lose Our Way – Michael Bond
One More Croissant for the Road – Felicity Cloake (Signed)
Tojours Provence – Peter Mayle (Signed)
Treacle Walker – Alan Garner
Gone Bones – Margaret Atwood (Signed)
Bridges – David McFetrich & Jo Parsons
Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus – Harry Mount
The Heavens – Sandra Newman
Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In – Henry Eliot
From Yukon to Yucatan: A Journey of Discovery in the Footsteps of America’s First Travellers – Irwin Allan Sealy
Farming – J.H. Bettey
The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers
Bitter Lemons – Lawrence Durrell
Motoring With Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea – Eric Hansen
A Shepherd’s Life – W. H. Hudson
Against Straight Lines: Alone in Labrador – Robert Perkins
The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland – Andy Burnham
A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia – Philip Marsden-Smedley
Raven Seek Thy Brother – Gavin Maxwell
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology – Lonely Planet
An Introduction to William Barnes – Douglas Ashdown
Setting the Poem to Words – David Hart
The Skin Spinners: Poems – Joan Aiken
Are there any from that list that you may have read or having now seen, would like to read at some point? Let me know what you read above in July in the comments below.
I’m glad the book on Deakin is good as I like both him and Barkham. And the Essex one piques my curiosity for work reasons if nothing else!
I was really good. I am just reading the Essex book at the moment and enjoying it
Ah, Lewis-Stempel! Just discovered him myself – really need to explore more, don’t I?
So many book, so little time. He is a great author