Collected three books from the library today
Falcon by Helen MacDonald
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merrit
The Swordfish and the Star by Gavin Knight
Category: Library Haul (Page 3 of 4)
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Legend says that in the Black Mountains is a cave filled with gold. One day Calum MacInnes has a dwarf call at his home seeking this mythical place. MacInnes reluctantly agrees to guide him there, for a price, and they set off for Misty Island where it supposedly is located. There is a healthy amount of distrust between the travellers, MacInnes at one point tries to lose the man, but he finds him fairly quickly. They do bond eventually and slowly reveal secrets from their past, dark secrets that no others had known before. Their secrets are linked to the cave of gold, which is claimed holds a curse for those that take it, a curse that MacInnes thinks he still carries from the first time he visited. Will they find the cave and is it cursed?
This is a moody, atmospheric tale that Gaiman has written, full of XXX and revenge. It is a story that I first read in Trigger Warnings and quite liked, but the dark tale is perfectly complemented by the artwork of Eddie Campbell who manages to convey the brooding skies and mountains of the region as the characters swirl around each other. Solid stuff from Gaiman once again.
Huge haul from the library today:
Wood by Andy Goldsworthy
Pole to Pole by Michael Palin
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
A Natural History of the Hedgerow by John Wright
Island Home by Tim Winton
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Pathlands by Peter Owen-Jones
The Spy with 29 Names by Jason Webster
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
The Art of Neil Gaiman: The Visual Story of One of the World’s Most Vital Creative Forces by Hayley Campbell
Walking Through Spring by Graham Holland
High Rise by J.G. Ballard
Molotov’s Magic Lantern : a Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
and was given a copy of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane & Dan Richards
The Art of Neil Gaiman: The Visual Story of One of the World’s Most Vital Creative Forces by Hayley Campbell
Walking Through Spring by Graham Holland
High Rise by J.G. Ballard
Molotov’s Magic Lantern : a Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
and was given a copy of Holloway by Robert Macfarlane & Dan Richards
Got three books from the library today:
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders by Oliver Balch
Popped into the library on the way home, as you do and got :
Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures by Alexander Armstrong
Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures by Alexander Armstrong
Got Rice’s Architectural Primer by Matthew Rice from the library and bought Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson and The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett
Collected Adrift: A Secret Life of London’s Waterways by Helen Babbs from the library today
Got two books from the library today:
It’s on the Meter by Paul Archer & Johno Ellison
Kaleidoscope City by Piers Moore Ede
And bought:
The Ocean at the End of the lane by Neil Gaiman. I have a copy of this, so a friend will receive this in the post this week
Got a review copy of Hunter Killer: Inside the lethal world of drone warfare by T. Mark McCurley through the post today and these from the library:
Around the Coast in Eighty Waves by Jonathan Bennett
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
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