Having a week’s holiday really helps with the reading, I got through 18 books this month, including four fiction books! We went to Corfu and it was lovely. Reading Prospero’s Cell whilst there brought the place alive. So here is what I read:
Books Read
Tiger – Polly Clark – 3 Stars
Astral Travel – Elizabeth Baines – 3 Stars
RSPB ID Spotlight – Garden Bugs – Marianne Taylor, Stephen Message – 3 Stars
RSPB ID Spotlight – Ducks, Geese and Swans – Marianne Taylor, Stephen Message – 3 Stars
A Sky Full Of Kites – Tom Bowser – 3.5 Stars
The Mortal Word – Genevieve Cogman – 3.5 Stars
Opened Ground Poems 1966 – 1996 – Seamus Heaney – 3.5 Stars
The Seven Deadly Sins – Various, Tr. Mara Faye Lethem – 3.5 Stars
The Spy Who Was Left Out In The Cold – Tim Tate – 3.5 Stars
The Instant – Amy May – 3.5 Stars
Rule, Nostalgia – Hannah Rose Woods – 3.5 Stars
Sky – Storm Dunlop – 4 Stars
Prospero’s Cell – Lawrence Durrell – 4 Stars
Where My Feet Fall – Duncan Minshull – 4 Stars
Sea State – Tabitha Lasley – 4 Stars
My House of Sky – Hetty Saunders – 4 Stars
Take My Hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez – 4 Stars
Book Of The Month
My book of the month is a travel book. In this, Rebecca tells the story of her journey across Europe and North Africa on the way to Iran. It is a refreshing read as she is not there to win a prize, rather it is the story of a trip that she does because she just wanted to.
The Slow Road to Tehran – Rebecca Lowe
Top Genres
Natural History – 20
Travel – 17
Poetry – 10
History – 10
Fiction – 7
Memoir – 7
Science – 7
Top Publishers
William Collins – 7
Faber & Faber – 7
Picador – 4
Eland – 4
Bloomsbury – 4
Unbound – 4
Review Copies Received
Inside Qatar – John McManus
Our Haunted Shores – Ed Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham & Joan Passey
Thunderstone – Nancy Campbell
Be/longing – Amanda Thomson
Nomad Century – Gaia Vince
Return to My Trees – Matthew Yeomans
(un)interrupted tongues – Dal Kular
Library Books Checked Out
Sea State – Tabitha Lasley
Time On Rock – Anna Fleming
Ravilious: Wood Engravings – James Russell
Where The Wildflowers Grow – Leif Bersweden
Secret Britain – Sinclair McKay
Books Bought
Hardy Landscapes – Gordon Beningfield
Landscape – Charlie Waite
Landscape in Britain – Charlie Waite & Adam Nicolson
Peregrine Falcons – Roy Dennis
Ospreys – Roy Dennis
The Making of the English landscape: Dorset – Christopher Taylor
Exiles – William Atkins
Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams
Orlam – P.J Harvey
Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone – Jackie Morris
Nice incomings there and glad you had a good read on your holiday! I had a week off in July but it coincided with those boiling days and I didn’t get as much reading done as I’d hoped.
Apologies for the tardy response, just got back from 10 days in Jersey. Didn’t get as much read there as I had hoped either. Had a good time though