Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald. Vintage. (272p) ISBN 9780099575467 I’ve just returned to work after almost nine months of furlough and decided to use the walk to and […]
Tag: Biography
Hungry
Grace Dent. HarperCollings. (304p) ISBN 9780008333188 I was lucky enough to get an advanced reading copy of Hungry from Hachette and was so pleased when […]
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Vashti Harrison. Penguin. (96p) ISBN 9780241346846 Another great addition to the short history type books that are being developed on a lot of different subjects […]
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Rachel Ignotofsky. Hachette. (128p) ISBN 9781526360519 I asked for a reading copy of this as I was intrigued by the cover art work, it looked […]
Lost Japan
Alex Kerr. Penguin. (256p) ISBN 9780141979748 This was a random pickup mainly because I had been reading a lot of translated Japanese literary fiction when […]
Lowborn
Kerry Hudson. Vintage. (256p) ISBN 9781784708603 I first heard Kerry talk at a Vintage Roadshow at Forum Books, Corbridge before Christmas, this didn’t put me […]
Bookworm
Lucy Mangan. Vintage Publishing. (336p) ISBN 9781784709228 What a wonderful read. I remember that feeling of cracking into a new book with utter pleasure and […]
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi. Vintage. (256p) ISBN 9781784701994 I do have to admit that I put off reading When Breath Becomes Air for so long as I […]
Wrestliana
Toby Litt. Galley Beggar Press. (260p) ISBN 9781910296899 Wrestliana is a complicated book, on the surface it is a biography of Toby Litt’s great-great-grandfather William […]
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