"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
Anita Sethi. Bloomsbury. (320p) ISBN 9781472983930 When I first started this book I found the description of the racial assault and bereavement of a close friend so heartbreaking and being in a very sensitive personal space at the time I had to put it down to digest and flow through me. I remember Anita tweeting …
John Wright. Profile Books. (400p) ISBN 9781781256220 I picked this up at one of our local shops in Barnard Castle, Oswell’s, as I always try to buy something whenever we visit and there’s usually a great little book selection about nature and the countryside. I pretty much read this in two sittings it was that …
Michael Jordan. Aurum Press. (160p) ISBN 9781781317419 I absolutely love books about nature, especially about trees, and when the opportunity arose that I could get a review copy of this book I jumped at it. Last year I had read ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and this is a similar concept, though only looking …
Simon Barnes. Simon & Schuster. (208p) ISBN 9781471175428 It was the cover of this book that drew me to it as all I wanted to do was spend some time at the side of the water. Split into 23 accessible chapters, each focusing on a different change you can make to feel more within the …
James Crumley. Birlinn General. (208p) ISBN 9781841589732 The Great Wood is a wonderful exploration of what might have been the Great Wood of Caledonia. James Crumley writes with passion but also with honesty in this book, returning again to the idea of wolves in Scotland, looking at the entire ecology of the area and wanting …