As a female and someone who loves to run and walk in nature, I am incredibly interested in how other women view landscape and place. It feels as though the genre of nature and travel writing is a field dominated by male voices and so I was really excited to read a fresh perspective that … More I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi

Apollo: Oscar Wilde’s life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and victim of ‘celebrity culture’: famous for being famous, he was often ridiculed and disparaged. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. He was … More Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis

Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: August 2020 Spring is perhaps a really fitting time to read Helen MacDonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’. Nature is beginning to awaken and chase winter away; new life is all around and the warmer days are arriving. Reading this collection of essays really made me aware of the world around me and, in … More Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Published by: Bloomsbury August 2019 As someone who had little knowledge of what a mudlark was before reading this book it is really useful that Lara Maiklem opens with the following definition from the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles: ‘ A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a … More Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

Published by: Faber and Faber April 2021 It feels a somewhat incongruent experience to finish reading This One Sky Day and have to leave the fictional archipelago Popisho, brimming in life and warmth to come back to a frost and snow ridden UK. I have never experienced reading a book quite like it and I … More This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

by C Pam Zhang Publisher: Virago April 2020 How Much of These Hills is Gold C Pam Zhang I finished this book two days ago and yet certain images from it continue to haunt me: the buffalo bones, the dust, the tiger paw prints and mostly, the flecks of gold. It is these flecks of … More How Much of These Hills is Gold

Pan MacMillan: Inspired by real events, The Lamplighters is an intoxicating and suspenseful mystery, an unforgettable story of love and grief that explores the way our fears blur the line between the real and the imagined. My review: Humans are always drawn to the unexplained and mysterious. Perhaps because it is a reminder of our own frailty … More The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex