Reading continues to be a much needed refuge and delight.
Discovered the charming Charlie Connelly and toured the shipping forecast with him. I visited glaciers, woods at night-time, flew with Concorde, drifted on canal boats, met a penguin in Ukraine, tunnelled through cold-war Berlin, became disorientated at Orford Ness, followed the receding treeline around the globe and delved into the geology of London. I found a word that fits perfectly in Hagitude and enjoyed once again being taught about dinosaurs by Professor Benton.
I will miss Abbot Peter after travelling with him for over twenty years as he took on his final case. Returned to an old favourite in John Wyndham and continued much loved series in the fabulous Rivers of London and the bonkerness of Jodi Taylor’s Chronicles of St Mary’s.
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The Butterfly Isles: Patrick BarkhamThe Screaming Sly: Charles FosterIce Rivers: Jemma WadhamA Spotter’s Guide to Countryside Mysteries: John WrightMeteorite: Tim GregoryUnder the Stars: Matt GawCabin Pressure radio playStoryland: Amy JeffsDinosaurs: Michael J BentonAfloat: Danie CounchmanVespers Flight: Helen MacDonaldStory of Grief: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieTunnel 29: Helen MerrimanBy Rowan and Yew: Melissa HarrisonThe Circling Sky: Neil AnsellChernobyl – history of a tragedy: Serhii PlokhyBeak, tooth and claw: Mary ColwellThe Wild Isles anthologyDeath and the Penguin: Andrev KurkovOne day in the life of Ivan Denisovich: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSeashaken Houses: Tom NancollasAmongst our Weapons: Ben AaronovitchThe Wren – a biography: Stephen MossA Catalogue of Catastrophe: Jodi TaylorGrief Works: Julia SamuelHuman, Nature: Ian CarterThe Kraken Wakes: John Wyndhamfair play: Tove JanssonPlan for Chaos: John WyndhamWhen the Dust Settles: Lucy EasthopeThe Sheep’s Tale: John Lewis-StempelNess: Robert MscFarlane and Stanley DonwoodThe Illustrated Herdwick Shepherd: James RebanksWomen of Holy Week: Paul GooderAtoms and Ashes: Serhii PlokhyThe Library of the Dead: T L HuchuWeb: John WyndhamCurse of the Burdens: John WyndhamHow do we look – the eye of faith: Mary BeardWhy We Sleep: Matthew WalkerBad Actors: Mick HerronNothing But The Truth: The Secret BarristerMisogynation: Laura BatesLost Connections: Johann HariChocky: John WyndhamSolitude: Terry WaiteThe Treeline: Ben RawlanceLife, Death and the Truth About Birth: The Secret MidwifeShadowlands: Matthew GreenThe Year of Living Danishly: Helen RussellLondon Clay: Tom ChiversInvisible Borders: Edited by Linda ClearyA complete guide to British Birds: Brett Westwood and Stephen MossAttention All Shipping: Charlie ConnellyThe Secret Life of Cows: Rosamund YoundThe Heeding: Rob Cowen. Illustrated by Nick HayesThe Ink Black Heart: Robert GalbraithAbout Time: Jodi TaylorCider with Rosie: Laurie LeeNightwalking: John Lewis-StempelAnd Did Those Feet: Charlie ConnellyAn Inconvenient Convent: Simon ParkeHagitude: Sharon BlackieDivide: Anna JonesStanding by the Wall: Mick HerronAlmanac 2022: Lia LeendertzThe Last Rainforests of Britain: Guy ShrubsoleLandfill: Tim DeeBring me Sunshine: Charlie ConnellyFifty Words for Snow: Nancy CampbellThe Madness – a memoir of war, fear and PTSD: Fergal KeaneConcorde: Mike BannisterThis is What Happened: Mick HerronSanta Grint: Jodi TaylorThe Ship Beneath the Ice: Mensun BoundA Tree a Day: Amy-Jane Beer
A brilliant year of books. Paper, e- and audio (borrowed and bought). If you didn’t know you can borrow e-books and audiobooks from your local library, you do now!
Red Bones: Ann CleevesBlue Lightning: Ann CleevesBack to Nature: Chris Packham and Megan McCubbinSnow: Giles WhittellSeven Kinds of People in Bookshops: Shaun BlythellClose to Where the Heart Gives Out: Malcolm AlexanderAnnie Dillard: Teaching a Stone to TalkConfessions of a Bookseller: Shaun BlythellDead Water: Ann CleevesBringing Back the Beaver: Derek GowThe Comet Sweeper: Claire BrockThin Air: Ann CleevesThe Orchid Hunter: Leid BerswedenSlough House: Mick HerronThin Places: Kerri ni DochartaighCold Earth: Ann CleevesWild Fire: Ann CleevesPoirot Investigates: Agatha ChristieWhat Abigail Did That Summer: Ben AaronovitchCoastlines: Patrick BarkhamHamnet: Maggie O’FarrellInvasive Aliens: Dan EatherleyAnother Time, Another Place: Jodi TaylorThe Crossing Places: Elly GriffithsBraiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall KimmererBadgerlands: Patrick BarkhamWayfinnding: Michael BondThe Oak Papers: James CantonOn The Marsh: Simon BarnesCircle of GrAce: Jan RichardsonDear Life: Alice MunroThe Stubborn Lights of Things: Melissa HarrisonA Sting in the Tail: Dave GoulsonThe Nightingale: Sam LeeBlue Horses: Mary OliverStone Circles:Hugh NewmanWhat if we Stopped Pretending: Jonathan FranzenRachel Carson: The Sense of WonderTo the River: Olivia LaingSilent Earth: Dave GoulsonThe Book of Trespass: Nick HayesThe Sea is not Made of Water: Adam NicholsonThe Wild Places: Robert MacfarlaneFeminism for Women: Julie BindelGathering Moss: Robin Wall KimmererIslands of Abandonment: Cal FlynSaving Time: Jodi TaylorEntangled Life: Merlin SheldrakeDid I Say That Out Loud?: Fi Glover and Jane GarveyThe Day the World Came to Town: Jim DefedeVaxxers: Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine GreenThe Shepherd’s Life: James RebanksThe Soaring Life of the Lark: John Lewis-StempelLandmarks: Robert MacfarlaneWoodston, the biography of an English farm: John Lewis-StempelWith the End in Mind: Dr Kathryn MannixThe Chrysalids: John Wyndham2021 The Almanac: Lia LeendertzTrouble with Lichen: John WyndhamWomen on Nature: Edited by Katharine NorburyThe Day of the Triffids: John WyndhamBy Ash, Oak and Thorn: Melissa HarrisonThe Midwich Cuckoos: John WyndhamThe Electricity of Every Living Thing: Katherine MayThe Toast of Time: Jodi TaylorA Hearse at Midnight: Simon Parke
Been taking photo of this lovely lime over the last year. It is in the avenue that runs up to Hampden House in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. Publishing them happens to coincide with National Tree Week.
Despite not being able to go anywhere much I’ve been to Shetland with Jimmy, across Iceland with Ray and Moth, off to the Yukon hunting salmon with Adam, to the stone age with Team Weird, around Northern Ireland with Dara and to Dartmoor with Wulfgar. I’ve spent time on an island in the Gulf of Finland with Tove and to court with TSB.
I’m still relying on audio as wasn’t able to concentrate on paper books in the same way for bug chunks and there are a few re-reads in there. First ever re-read within a year I think! Nature books have been a balm this year and have enjoyed essay form books too.
The Old Ways: Robert Macfarlane
Sightlines: Kathleen Jamie
The Best of Chiltern Wildlife: Kirby and Hawkes
Kings of the Yukon: Adam Weymouth
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm: Roger Deakin
Autumn: Ali Smith
ADA France Williams: Ghost Ship
CS Lewis: Readings for meditation and reflection
Max Porter: Grief is the thing with feathers
Paula Gooder: Body
James Rebanks: English Pastoral
Wintering: Katherine May
The Wild Silence, Raynor Winn
Dark Skies: Tiffany Francis-Baker
Robert Galbraith: Troubled Blood
Fake Law: The Secret Barrister
The Lost Words: Jackie MOrris and Robert Macfarlane
Findings: Katheleen Jamie
The Wild Life of the Fox: John Lewis-Stempel
Hard Time: Jodi Taylor
A Life on our planet: David Attenborough
Into the tangled bank: Lev Parikian
A winter book: Tove Jansson
The furthest station: Ben Aaronovitch
The October Man: Ben Aaronovitch
Quite: Claudia Winleman
Walking: Erling Kagge
The Lost Spells: Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
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