A day late posting this, but May, or Beltane, is already here, how did that happen? Without further ado, I am aiming to read around 18 of these over the coming month. This will definitely be the month that I will be reading some fiction as I have so failed to do so in April
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 Hill of Devi – E.M. Forster
Blog Tour
Machine Journey – Richard Doyle
The Price of Immortality – Peter Ward
Villager – Tom Cox
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
Lost Woods – Rachel Carson
Ring of Stone Circles – Stan L Abbott
Riding Out – Simon Parker
Library
No Friend But The Mountains – Behrouz Boochani
The Antisocial Network – Ben Mezrich
A Still Life – Josie George
Scraps Of Wool – Bill Colegrave
Mind is The Ride – Jet McDonald
Silent Earth – Dave Goulson
Iconicon – John Grindrod
Notes From A Summer Cottage – Nina Burton
39 Ways to Save the Planet – Tom Heap
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
We, Robots – Curtis White
Secrets Of A Devon Wood – Jo Brown
Poetry
Machine Journey – Richard Doyle
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
Photobook
Dorset In Photographs – Matt Pinner
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?
Well I have the James Rebanks TBR and just finished and reviewed Wild Silence. I’d like to read your thoughts on The Best British Travel Writing and how diverse, etc., it is. I just directed my best friend to your review of Wanderland; she’d seen Amazon reviews about how it sees racism where there is none, etc., etc., in that way Amazon reviewers have of reacting to books by global majority people authors and was worried about it coming up on our Reading Together.
Rayor has a new book coming out in the autumn. I will be reading that alongside some other general travel writing books in a week or so. I have now met Jinny and she is lovely. Her book was a great take on getting more than just nature and mental health relief from the countryside.
English Pastoral is on my TBR. Funny how a book I’d not heard of before picking up the book, suddenly is referenced in a number of things I come across.
I have had that happen in the past, and not with new books either.