August flew by and I had a week off too! Managed to make a small inroad to last month’s TBR but the list is still out of control. I am aiming to pick around 16 to 18 from this list below.
Finishing Off (Still!)
Lotharingia – Simon Winder
Sea People – Christina Thompson
On The Marsh – Simon Barnes
Another Fine Mess – Tim Moore
Invisible Work – John Howkins
The Pay Off – Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha De Terán
BLOG TOUR
London Clay – Tom Chivers
Review Copies
Astral Travel – Elizabeth Baines
The Germans and Europe – Peter Millar
Britain Alone – Philip Stephens
We Own This City – Justin Fenton
Spaceworlds – Ed. Mike Ashley
The Fugitives – Jamal Mahjoub
Slow Trains Around Spain – Tom Chesshyre
The Power of Geography – Tim Marshall
Finding the Mother Tree – Suzanne Simard
The Four Horsemen – Emily Mayhew
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
The Glitter in the Green – Jon Dunn
Borderlines – Charles Nicholl
The Sea Is Not Made Of Water – Adam Nicholson
Mainstream – Ed Justin Davis & Nathan Evans
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers – Matthew Gavin Frank
Above the Law – Adrian Bleese
Somebody Else – Charles Nicholl
Goshawk Summer – James Aldred
The Red Planet – Simon Morden
The Turkish Embassy Letters – Mary Wortley Montagu
Lost Animals – Errol Fuller
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce – Massimo Montanari Tr. Gregory Conti
The Long Field – Pamela Petro
100 Poets – Ed. John Carey
The Song of Youth – Montserrat Roig, Tr. Tiago Miller
Light Rains Sometimes Fall – Lev Parikian
Library
Grounded – Ruth Allen
Rag And Bone – Lisa Wollett
Island Dreams – Gavin Francis
Seed To Dust – Marc Hamer
Poetry
High Windows – Philip Larkin
Death of a Naturalist – Seamus Heaney
Terry Pratchett
Thought that I might get to these earlier, but no. So four books to go on the Discworld series, and this month I will read the first of the four left. Probably not going to get to the Bromliad series this year but never say never…
I Shall Wear Midnight
Challenge Books
The Con Artist – Fred van Lente
Water Ways – Jasper Winn
The Night Lies Bleeding – M.D. Lachlan
Divided – Tim Marshall
The Wonderful Mr Willughby – Tim Birkhead
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
Asian Waters – Humphrey Hawksley
Light of the Stars – Adam Frank
Blue Mind – Wallace J. Nichols
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
The Restless Kings – Nick Barratt
The Kindness Of Strangers – Ed. Fearghal O’Nuallain
To Obama – Jeanne Marie Laskas
What We Have Lost – James Hamilton-Paterson
Wainwright Prize
Vesper Flights – Helen Macdonald
Seed to Dust – Marc Hamer
English Pastoral: An Inheritance – James Rebanks
I Belong Here – Anita Sethi
The Wild Silence – Raynor Winn
Any that you have read or come across before? Or are there are any that take your fancy?
High Windows is, of course, quite brilliant!!
That is good to know. I only picked it up a couple of days ago
I had to buy The Sea Is Not Made Of Water when I saw it existed, though not sure when I’ll get to it. I once had an email exchange with Nicolson which was a highlight of my reviewing life! I have Goshawk Summer and Light Rains to read and review SOON as they’re for Shiny. Hope you have a good reading month.
The only book of his that I have not liked is the one about Wordsworth. I have met him and got him to sign my copy of Sea Room. He is a really nice guy