Only having one Bank Holiday in May this year threw me a little but we do get a double in June! Yeah! Anyway, onto the books that I read and entered my house in the month of May
Books Read
Mind is The Ride – Jet McDonald – 3.5 Stars
39 Ways to Save the Planet – Tom Heap – 3.5 Stars
Lost Woods – Rachel Carson – 4 Stars
Villager – Tom Cox Fiction– 4 Stars
No Friend But The Mountains – Behrouz Boochani – 4 Stars
Notes From A Summer Cottage – Nina Burton– 3 Stars
Secrets Of A Devon Wood – Jo Brown Natural History– 4 Stars
Dorset In Photographs – Matt Pinner Photography– 4 Stars
Machine Journey – Richard Doyle– 3 Stars
Otherlands – Thomas Halliday – 3.5 Stars
The Price of Immortality – Peter Ward Science – 4 Stars
The Antisocial Network – Ben Mezrich – 3 Stars
The Hill of Devi – E.M. Forster– 3.5 Stars
The Great North Road – Steve Silk Travel – 4 Stars
Riding Out – Simon Parker Travel – 4 Stars
Books Of The Month
Silent Earth – Dave Goulson – 4.5 Stars – This should be essential reading for anyone slighting interested in the welfare of our planet and the creatures that we rely on for our survival.
Top Genres
Natural History – 13 books
Travel – 12 books
Poetry – 8 books
History – 7 books
Science- 7 books
Top Publishers
William Collins – 6 books
Picador – 4 books
Faber & Faber – 4 books
Eland – 3 books
Allen Lane – 3 books
Review Copies Received
New Leaf by Sean Lysaght
Taking Stock – Roger Morgan-Grenville
The Ottomans – Marc David Baer
A Village In The Third Reich – Julia Boyd & Angelika Patel
A River Runs Through Me – Andrew Douglas-Home
The Serpent Coiled in Naples – Marius Kociejowski
Library Books Checked Out
Salt Lick – Lulu Allison
Otherlands – Thomas Halliday
The Ship Asunder – Ton Nancollas
Walking With Nomads – Alice Morrison
Gnomon – Nick Harkaway
Shadowlands – Matthew Green
What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch
Elegy For a River – Tom Moorhouse
In Search of One Last Song – Patrick Galbraith
Nine Quarters Of Jerusalem – Matthew Teller
Sustainable Materials – Julia Allwood
Books Bought
South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara – Justin Marozzi
Sea Change: The Summer Voyage from East to West Scotland of the Anassa – Mairi Hedderwick
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River – Alice Albinia
Talking to Zeus: My Year in a Greek Garden – Jane Shaw
Wild Ruins: The Explorer’s Guide to Britain Lost Castles, Follies, Relics and Remains – Dave Hamilton
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
Atmospheric Dorset – Kris Dutson
Bournemouth 1810 – 2010: From Smugglers to Surfers – Vincent May
Good Evening Mrs Craven – Mollie Panter-Downes
The Perfect Golden Circle – Benjamin Myers
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain – Pen Vogler
England on Fire: A Visual Journey Through Albion’s Psychic Landscape by Stephen Ellcock, Adam Gordon
Radical Landscapes: Art, Identity and Activism by Darren Pih & Laura Bruni
Silverview John Le Carre
Everything I Found On The Beach – Cynan Jones
Ooh, was the Ottomans for the Wolfson? I’m working my way through Going to Church in Medieval England, it’s ever so good but it is a big one and I never seem to have quite enough time (not as bad as the year I had that 1,000-pager on the oceans!
It is indeed. Though I haven’t got any resources through for it yet as per normal for Midas!