Well, March was a good reading month. I managed to read a total of 18 books in the end, with three of them reaching 4.5 stars. Natural history has just reached the top of my genre chart too, with six, the same as fiction. Faber are top of my publishers list probably because of the poetry. I only bought 29 books too..
Books Read
Taxtopia – The Rebel Accountant – 4 Stars
Another Gulmohar Tree – Aamer Hussein – 2 Stars
Falling Away – David Banning – 3.5 Stars
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside – Matthew Kelly – 3.5 Stars
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past – Christopher Hadley – 4 Stars
These Envoys of Beauty – Anna Vaught – 4 Stars
The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas – Natalie Sanders – 3.5 Stars
Nightwalking – John Lewis-Stempel – 4 Stars
Cane, Corn & Gully – Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa – 3 Stars
Manorism – Yomi Sode – 3 Stars
Quiet – Victoria Adukwei Bulley – 3.5 Stars
Afropean – Johny Pitts – 4 Stars
In the Shadow of the Mountain – Silvia Vasquez-Lavado – 3.5 Stars
The Travel Writing Tribe – Tim Hannigan – 4 Stars
Extraordinary Clouds – Richard Hamblyn – 3.5 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Nomad Century – Gaia Vince – 4.5 Stars
Two Lights – James Roberts – 4.5 Stars
One Place De L’Eglise – Trevor Dolby – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 6
Natural History – 6
Poetry – 6
History – 5
Travel – 4
Memoir – 3
Fantasy – 3
Science Fiction – 3
Photography – 2
Environmental – 2
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 4
Simon & Schuster – 3
Particular Books – 2
Allen Lane – 2
Little Toller – 2
William Collins – 2
Monoray – 2
Summersdale – 1
Sandstone Press – 1
Fum D’Estamps Press – 1
Review Copies Received
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos – Jaime Green
Once Upon a Raven’s Nest: A Life On Exmoor In An Epoch Of Change – Catrina Davies
Shaping the Wild: Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm – David Elias
Cry of the Wild: Tales Of Sea, Woods and Hill – Charles Foster
In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy – Jeff Biggers
Minor Monuments – Ian Maleney
Library Books Checked Out
The Lost Rainforests Of Britain – Guy Shrubsole
One Thousand Shades Of Green: A Year In Search Of Britain’s Wild Plants – Mike Dilger
Spring Rain – Marc Hamer
Between The Chalk And The Sea: A Journey On Foot Into The Past – Gail Simmons
Am I Normal?: The 200-year Search For Normal People (And Why They Don’t Exist) – Sarah Chaney
Ten Birds That Changed The World – Stephen Moss
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future – Tom Bullough
Books Bought
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers – Ed. Don George
Walking With Plato: A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles – Gary Hayden
Almost French: A New Life in Paris – Sarah Turnbull
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire – Simon Winchester
Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing – Ed. Tony Wheeler
The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey Of The Iconic Land Rover Expedition – Alex Bescoby (signed)
Travels With Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age – Daniel Klein
A Rose for Winter – Laurie Lee
Prehistoric Britain from the Air – Janet & Colin Bord
Spain – Jan Morris
Three Rivers Of France: Dordogne, Lot, Tarn – Freda White
Italian Journeys – Jonathan Keates
From Source to Sea: Notes from Walking 215 Miles Along the River Thames – Tom Chesshyre
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth – J.R.R. Tolkien
Poets of the Great War: Edward Thomas – Edward Thomas
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
Jumping Ships: The Global Misadventures of a Cargo Ship Apprentice – David Baboulene
Prehistoric Dorset – John Gale
Fresh Woods Pastures New – Ian Niall
The Cuckoo in June: Tales of a Sussex Orchard – David Atkins
Mysterious Britain: Ancient Secrets of the United Kingdom and Ireland – Janet & Colin Bord
Ley Lines: Their Nature and Properties : A Dowser’s Investigation – J. Havelock Fidler
Human kind: A Hopeful History – Rutger Bregman
Period Piece – Gwen Raverat
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change – Jared Diamond
Green and Pleasant Land: Best-Loved Poems of the British Countryside – Ana Sampson
The Lost Whale – Hannah Gold (signed)
Time Junction – Helen Solomon (signed)
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty – Nikita Gill
Any from that huge list that take you fancy, let me know in the comments below
Ooh, ley lines!! And dowsing! Watch out for that Outposts, though, it contains really quite nasty colonial style racism, I gave up on it a few years ago.
I am not a great believer in ley lines, they seem too unreal to be totally true. I do think that there are links between some of these ancient sites though that we miss because of the way we have changed the landscape. I shall bear that in mind about Outposts, I remember you saying that you stopped reading him a little while back because of his views