June! Already. Where do the months keep going? It is beyond me. It only seems a few days since I was posting the May TBR and here we are again. You know the drill, this is a frankly disturbingly long list and I am not going to read all of them, but it does give me the option to pick and choose.
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 Antisocial Network – Ben Mezrich
A Still Life – Josie George
Salt Lick – Lulu Allison
Blog Tour
The Ottomans – Marc David Baer
Review Copies
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – Jonny Muir
The Good Life – 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 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
The Seven Deadly Sins – Mara Faye Lethem
One People – Guy Kennaway
Three Women of Herat – Veronica Doubleday
The Sloth Lemur’s Song – Alison Richard
Where My Feet Fall – Duncan Minshull
Polling UnPacked – Mark Pack
Jacobé & Fineta – Joaquim Ruyra
The View from the Hil – Christopher Somerville
The Best British Travel Writing Of The 21st Century – Jessica Vincent
Ring of Stone Circles – Stan L Abbott
Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises – Mark Carwardine
Library
A Sky Full Of Kites – Tom Bowser
A Curious Absence of Chickens – Sophie Grigson
Scraps Of Wool – Bill Colegrave
Park Life – Tom Chesshyre
The Bookseller’s Tale – Martin Latham
The Spymasters – Chris Whipple
Looking for Transwonderland – Noo Saro-Wiwa
A Sky Full Of Kites – Tom Bowser
A Curious Absence of Chickens – Sophie Grigson
Poetry
New Leaf – Sean Lysaght
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
Challenge Books
The Wood That Made London – C.J. Schuler
English Pastoral – James Rebanks
Wild Silence – Raynor Winn
Fox – Jim Crumley
Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
Photobook
Dorset Before the Camera: 1539-1855 – David Burnett
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?
Thank you for reminding me of The Heath, which I need to buy for my best friend, who walks there a lot!
You are very welcome!