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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Translated by Charlotte Collins There are more books now that quietly show us the life of a person such as Stoner by John Edward Williams.…
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
I first read this book nearly forty years ago and so it is a real pleasure to come back to it now for book club…
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The Flower Thesaurus by Liz Potter
There are many ways organise planting in the garden. By geographical location often dependent on the soil, e.g. a mediterranean bed or by plant shape,…
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The writer’s map ed. by Huw Lewis-Jones
I love maps real or imagined so this book with the subtitle An Atlas of Imaginary Lands is something I could pore over for weeks.…
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Loitering with intent by Muriel Spark
A poet and novelist looks back on her life as a penniless author and describes her transformation into someone who lives for writing, who will…
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There are rivers in the sky by Elif Shafak
This story starts with a raindrop falling on the head of King Ashurbanipal, ruler and murderer of people but also holder of the most miraculous…
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When I undertook my Permaculture design certificate, I understood that I had found my gardening home. I garden organically in a no-dig manner but neither…
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I’ve been in the reading doldrums for almost all of this year, not being able to find anything that I absolutely have loved. This was…
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I haven’t had a great reading year in terms of books that I have loved or even scored 4 out of 5 but this book,…
Trying to read all the good books 