I am changing the way I do the monthly review for two or three months just to see if how it goes and this takes less time that it was taking me before. I am going to add in the books that I have been sent for review, bought or got from the library. I am also going to include the top three genres and publishers. So let me know what you think below.
So, February as ever, came and went in no time at all. It always seems much shorter than 28 days, but i did manage to get a grand total of fifteen books read, the target was 16.
Books Read
The Nutmeg’s Curse – Amitav Ghosh
Storyland – Amy Jeffs
Meet the Georgians – Robert Peal
Deeper Into The Wood – Ruth Pavey
The Book Of Pebbles – Christopher Stocks
Wiltshire Moods – Steve Day
The Rose of Temperaments – Various
Tell Me Who We Were Before Life Made Us – Ed. Maz Hedgehog
The Planet in a Pebble – Jan Zalasiewicz
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe – Andrew Newsam
The Suburbanist – Geoff Nicholson
Bengal Lancer – Francis Yeats-Brown
The Almost Nearly Perfect People – Michael Booth
I had two books of the month:
Orchard – Benedict MacDonald & Nicholas Gates
This is an evocative and well written book about the life in an orchard in Hereford
A Natural History Of The Future – Rob Dunn
This is an essential read about the problems we are causing on out planet. It is a bit grim so might not suit everyone at the moment
Top Genres
Natural History – 9
Travel – 7
History – 4
Top Publishers
William Collins – Five Books
John Murray – Two Books
Plus 26 other publishers with one book each!
Review Copies Received
Hope & Fear – Ronald H. Fritze
The Year The World Went Mad – Mark Woolhouse
Library Books
Bewilderment – Richard Powers
A Curious Absence of Chickens – Sophie Grigson
A Song for a new Day – Sarah Pinsker
The This – Adam Roberts
Books Bought
In England – Don McCullen
Dorset 1900 – 1999: The Twentieth Century in Photographs – David Burnett
The Most Beautiful Walk In the World – John Baxter
The Islandman – Tomas O’Crohan
Banksy: The Man Behind The Wall – Will Elsworth Jones
Hitler’s British Traitors – Tim Tate
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
A Chateau of One’s Own: Restoration Misadventures in France – Sam Juneau
Watching – Harry Lovelock
Discover Dorset: Portland – Stuart Morris
A Shepherd’s Delight – Larry Skeats
Islands Of The Trade Winds – Dr Mary Gillham
Acts of Desperation – Megan Nolan
Here Comes The Miracle – Anna Beecher
My Darling From The Lions – Rachel Long
Islands OF Abandonment – Cal Flynn
Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
Document Your Culture: A Manual – Emma Warren
350 Miles: An Essex Journey – Jason Orton & Ken Worpole
Strangers: Essays on The Human and Non-Human – Rebecca Tamás
Small Bodies of Water – Nina Mingya Powles (Now signed!)
Fifty Sounds – Polly Barton (Now signed!)
The Wars of the Interior – Joseph Zarate
And Artist At Home And Abroad – David Weston
The Dorset Weather Book – Mark Ching & Ian Currie
Seaside Surrealism: Paul Nash In Swanage – Pennie Denton
France On Two Wheels – Adam Ruck
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy – Sonia Purnell
Guide to the West Dorset Countryside Paperback – Chris Jesty
Peace Work – Spike Milligan
Goodbye Soldier – Spike Milligan
Where Have All the Bullets Gone?– Spike Milligan
Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall – Spike Milligan
Monty: My part In His Victory – Spike Milligan
Rommel? Gunner Who? – Spike Milligan
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall – Spike Milligan
Slow Trains To Venice – Tom Chesshyre
Livia – Lawrence Durrell
Tyneham – Lilian Bond
Small Island By Little Train – Chris Arnot
Letters From Skokolm – R.M. Lockley
Ireland’s Green Larder – Margaret Hickey
The Lost Gardens Of Heligan – Tim Smit
Magnus Of Stonewyld – Kit Berry
The New Wild – Fred Pearce
Coasting – Elise Downing
The Trigger – Tim Butcher
It’s a Hill, Get Over It: Fell Running’s History and Characters – Steve Chilton
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up – Tom Philips
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – Travis Elborough
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud – Ana Sampson
At My Table – Nigella Lawson
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett (Signed)
Leylines of Wessex – Roger Crisp
Wimborne Minster 1992 Portrait of a Town – Alan R. Bennett
Did you buy all those books in February? Nice reading, anyway, a good total, I did the same.
I did! Kind of running out of room to put them at the moment