April whizzed by! We celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary and I had a week off work, pottering around at home and seeing some of the beautiful Dorset countryside. Read a few books, but more about that in another post soon. Here is my TBR from May. Three bank holidays too! Though Sarah has lots of jobs around the house lined up… I have three books on Wales to read this month and quite a lot of books on walking.
Still Reading
Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 – Veronica Doubleday
Review Books
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – Jonny Muir
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist – Tim Birkhead
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
On the Scent: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Smell – And How Losing It Can Change Our World – Paola Totaro and Robert Wainwright
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day – Dan Keel
Handbook of Mammals of Madagascar Hardcover – Nick Garbutt
RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife: 3rd edition – Peter Holden & Geoffrey Abbott
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature – Miles Richardson
One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time – Ian Marchant
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
The View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain – Christopher Somerville
Across A Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through A British Spring – Roger Morgan-Grenville
Brittany – Stone Stories – Wendy Mewes
Minor Monuments – Ian Maleney
Real Dorset – Jon Woolcott
Taking Flight – Lev Parikian
Other Books
The Last Overland: Singapore to London: The Return Journey Of The Iconic Land Rover Expedition – Alex Bescoby
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – Travis Elborough
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking – Kerri Andrews
Wild City: Encounters With Urban Wildlife – Florence Wilkinson
Endurance: 100 Tales Of Survival, Endurance And Exploration – Ed. Levison Wood
Vuelta Skelter: Riding The Remarkable 1941 Tour Of Spain – Tim Moore
The Ten Equations That Rule The World And How You Can Use Them Too – David Sumpter
Waypoints: A Journey On Foot – Robert Martineau
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present And Future – Tom Bullough
The Passengers – Will Ashon
Between The Chalk And The Sea: A Journey On Foot Into The Past Gail Simmons
Challenge Books
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Elegy For A River: Whiskers, Claws And Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope – Tom Moorhouse
Bloom: From Food to Fuel, the Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World – Ruth Kassinger
Poetry
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006 Wendy Cope
Photobooks
The Golden Valley: A Visual Biography of the Garw – Phil Cope
Fiction
The Fell – Sarah Moss
So my aim of having slightly shorter TBRs really isn’t working… Any from that list that takes your fancy? Let me know in the comments below.
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