Where on earth did September go? Answers on a postcard, please! Even though it whizzed by, it was a good reading month with another five-star read right at the end. I didn’t by as many as I have done on previous months either so that is a small victory that I will take!
Books Read
Children of the Volcano – Ros Belford – 4 Stars
The Gun Seller – Hugh Lawrie – 2.5 Stars
Selling Manhattan – Carol Ann Duffy – 3 Stars
The Volunteers: A Memoir of Conservation, Companionship and Community – Carol Donaldson – 4 Stars
Discovering Timber-framed Buildings – Richard Harris – 3 Stars
Salacious Sussex – Viv Croot – 3 Stars
The Haunted Places of Hampshire – Ian Fox – 3 Stars
The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami – 3
Vagabond: A Hiker’s Homage to Rural Spain – Mark Eveleigh – 4 Stars
Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – 2 Stars
Late Light: Finding Home In The West Country – Michael Malay – 4.5 Stars
Uprooting: From The Caribbean To The Countryside: Finding Home In An English Country Garden – Marchelle Farrell – 4 Stars
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders And Belonging – Jessica J Lee – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place – Alice Maddicott – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 30
Travel – 26
Natural History – 13
Poetry – 9
Memoir – 7
Science Fiction – 6
Miscellaneous – 4
Food & Drink – 3
Humour – 3
History – 3
Top Publishers
Bloomsbury – 7
Vintage – 5
Canongate – 4
Picador – 4
Summersdale – 4
Eland – 3
Faber & Faber – 3
Saraband – 3
Penguin Classics – 3
September Books – 2
Review Copies Received
In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why Flavour Holds the Answer to Fixing Our Food System – Franco Fubini
Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms – Richard Fortey
Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book: How Much Do You Really Know About the World? – Tim Marshall
Library Books Checked Out
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place – Alice Maddicott
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders And Belonging – Jessica J Lee
Uprooting: From The Caribbean To The Tountryside: Finding Home In An English Country Garden – Marchelle Farrell
Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain – Corrine Fowler
Books Bought
La Vie: A Year In Rural France – John Lewis-Stempel
Cacophony Of Bone – Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
The Ongoing Moment – Geoff Dyer
Provence – John Flower & Charlie Waite
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners – Deborah Kellaway (Ed)
Return to Paris: A Memoir With Recipes – Colette Rossant
A Tourist in the Arab Spring – Tom Chesshyre
Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun – Chris Broad
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran – Cyrus Massoudi
Sport – Dennis Brailsford
Blackmoor Vale Childhood – Hilary Townsend (Signed)
The New Granta Book of Travel – Liz Jobey (Ed)
The Common Reader – Alan Bennett (Signed)
All At Sea: One man. One bathtub. One very bad idea. – Tim FitzHigham
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall – Anna Funder (Signed)
A Siberian Winter’s Tale: Cycling to the Edge of Insanity and the End of the World – Helen Lloyd
Too Late To Turn Back: Barbara And Graham Greene In Liberia – Barbara Greene
A Tourist in the Arab Spring – Tom Chesshyre
Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Britain – Frances Lynch
The Downhill Hiking Club: A Short Walk Across The Lebanon – Dom Joly
Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey – Felicity Cloake (Signed)
So are there any from that list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
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