March always seems to drag a bit, but it is a longer month so more reading time. I had three book events too this month, The London Book Fair and then in the evening to Stanfords to hear Mike Parker talk about his new book, All The Wide Border. Then I was in Shaftesbury for the Reading The Land Literary Festival, where I heard Charles Foster and Sophie Pavell speak about their books. Really enjoyed all of those. Anyway here is what I read and bought and was kindly sent by publishers this month
Books Read
Where The Seals Sing – Susan Richardson – 2.5 Stars
The Britannias: An Island Quest – Alice Albinia – 3.5 Stars
Very British Problems: Still Awkward, Still Raining – Rob Temple – 3.5 Stars
Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet – Rob Temple – 3.5 Stars
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art – James Nestor – 3.5 Stars
One Thousand Shades Of Green: A Year In Search Of Britain’s Wild Plants – Mike Dilger – 3.5 Stars
Why Women Grow – Alice Vincent – 3.5 Stars
Cold Fish Soup – Adam Farrer – 3.5 Stars
Modern Fog – Chris Emery – 3.5 Stars
Now is the Time to Know Everything – Simon Moreton – 4 Stars
Hermit: A Memoir Of Finding Freedom In A Wild Place – Jade Angeles Fitton – 4 Stars
The Rosewater Insurrection – Tade Thompson – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Spring Rain – Marc Hamer – 4.5 Stars
Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds – Gareth E. Rees – 4.5 Stars
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 12
Fiction – 8
Natural History – 5
Memoir – 4
Poetry – 3
Humour – 2
Science – 1
Gardening – 1
History – 1
Biography – 1
Top Publishers
Bloomsbury – 3
Eland – 2
Canongate – 2
Sphere – 2
Salt – 2
Saraband – 2
Influx Press – 1
Harvill Secker – 1
Lydstep Lettuce – 1
Harper North – 1
Review Copies Received
Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond – Mike Billett
Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology – Laura Coffey
Set My Hand Under The Plough – E.M Barraud
A Year Of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects – Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton
Cairn – Kathleen Jamie
In All Weathers – Matt Gaw
A Sunny Place For Shady People – Ryan Murdock
Library Books Checked Out
Footmarks: A Journey Into Our Restless Past – Jim Leary
Island to Island : From Somerset to Seychelles – Sally Mills
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church – Peter Ross
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite – Jake Bernstein
Books Bought
Rambling Man: Travels of a Lifetime – Billy Connolly
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond – Alice Roberts (Signed)
Grey Skies, Green Waves: A Surfer’s Journey Around the UK and Ireland – Tom Anderson
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain – Matthew Green
A Writer’s World: Travels 1950–2000 – Jan Morris
Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia – Tony Anderson
Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK’s Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness – Christian Lewis
Stalin’s Nose: Across the Face of Europe – Rory Maclean (Signed)
The Wild Rover: A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths – Mike Parker (Signed)
All The Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between – Mike Parker (Signed)
Map Addict – Mike Parker (Signed)
Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain – Sophie Pavelle (Signed)
Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey – Adam Weymouth (Signed)
Curlew Moon – Mary Cowell – Female (Signed)
The Enchanted Places – Christopher Milne (Signed)
The Condor’s Feather: Travelling Wild In South America – Michael Webster
Another Breath Of Border Air – Lavinia Derwent
Elephants: Birth, Death, & Family in the Lives of the Giants – Hannah Mumby
The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
New Reading the Landscape: Fieldwork in Landscape History – Richard Muir
Small Worlds – Caleb Azumah Nelson
Smoke in the Lanes: Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s – Dominic Reeve
A Pilgrim in Spain – Christopher Howse
Along The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story – William Blacker
Dorset Dialect – Gill Newton
Tequila Oil: Getting Lost In Mexico – Hugh Thomson
Rena Gardiner: Artist and Printmaker – Julian Francis & Martin Andrews (Signed)
So are there any from that huge list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
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