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Michell, Tom "The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird" - 2015 I discussed this with my German book club in Aug...

Rushdie, Salman "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder" - 2024 This was my third book by Salman Rushdie. I have enjoyed the...

Sullivan, Margaret C. "The Jane Austen Handbook. A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World" - 2007 Part of my #Reading Austen proj...

Pierce, Patricia "Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters" - 2006 Ever since I read " Remarkable Creatures ...

McCourt, Malachy "A Monk Swimming" - 1998 The name McCourt is well known in reading circles, almost everyone knows Frank McCourt ...

Hornby, Gill "Miss Austen" - 2020 As I mentioned before, as part of the commemoration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, the Cla...

Weir, Alison "Katharine Parr. The Sixth Wife" (Six Tudor Queens #6) - 2021 The sixth wife of Henry VIII. And the sixth book in the...

Thoreau, Henry David "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" - 1854 Everyone told me I should read the book. I like to think about and spe...

Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017 My favourite book of the month. As part of the commemoration of Jane Austen's 250th...

Oates, Joyce Carol "Blonde" - 2000 I find it hard to write this review. I love books by Joyce Carol Oates, I think she deserves th...

Bythell, Shaun "Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown" - 2022 I absolutely love Shaun Bythell's books...

Garfield, Simon "To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence - A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing" - 2013 I re...

Orwell, George "The Road to Wigan Pier" - 1937 I read this for the " 1937 Club ". I have read a few books by George Orwe...

Tomalin, Claire "Jane Austen - A Life" - 1997 Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors. I have read all her novels, even the on...

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us" - 1996 " No Family is an Island " is...

Westover, Tara "Educated" - 2018 This book has been on my wishlist for a while. But, as you all know, too many books, too little t...

Rowlinson, Derek "What's the best you can do?: First-hand Recollections of a Second-hand Bookseller" - 2009 After reading Shau...

Orwell, George "Down and Out in Paris and London: A Gritty Memoir on Life & Poverty in Two Cities" - 1933 Having read " N...

Ernaux, Annie "The Years" (French: Les années) - 2008 We read this in our international online book club in July 2023. As so oft...

Fermor, Patrick Leigh "Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland" - 1986 This travel boo...