What I read in 2021

 The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe
Ma Polinski's Pockets, Sara Sheridan
The Octopus Man, Jasper Gibson
Granta 153: Second Nature

Snow, Dog, Foot, Claudio Morandini, trans J Ockenden

The Messenger of Athens, Anne Zouroudi

Emperors, Admirals & Chimney Sweepers, Peter Marren

Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories, Kim Mahood

The Long Call, Ann Cleeves

Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, Merlin Sheldrake

The Forward Book of Poetry 2017

A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe

English Pastoral, James Rebanks

A Still Life, Josie George

The Foundling, Stacey Halls

Butcher's Dog 14 (Autumn 2020)

A Place of Execution, Val McDermid

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera, trans Lisa Dillman

Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny

A Minute to Midnight, David Baldacci

Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald

The Enchanted Places, Christopher Milne

Wild, Cheryl Strayed

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-joo, trans Jamie Chang

Elmet, Fiona Mozley

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House, Tessa Boase

Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell

Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller

Granta 155: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

Lumen, Tiffany Atkinson

Everything Under, Daisy Johnson

The Darkest Evening, Ann Cleeves

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, Kerri Andrews

If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks they Leave Behind, Francisco Garcia

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, Lars Mytting

Thinking with Trees, Jason Allen-Paisant

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

To the River, Olivia Laing

Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith

Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh

Granta 154: I've been away for a while

Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield

Trace, Patricia Cornwell

Summerwater, Sarah Moss

Trace Elements, Donna Leon

Women on Nature, ed Katharine Norbury

Missing Words, Loree Westron

Albert and the Whale, Philip Hoare

Tears in the Fence No 70: Autumn 2019

Wanderland, Jini Reddy

Fortune and Glory, Janet Evanovich

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

Granta 156: Interiors

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

Blue Postcards, Douglas Bruton

Waterlog, Roger Deakin

The Looking Glass, Michèle Roberts

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Ian Mortimer

The Photograph, Penelope Lively

An Event in Autumn, Henning Mankell

On Gallows Down, Nicola Chester

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Dear Crane, Susan Wicks

Out of the blue, Simon Armitage

Heavy Time, Sonia Overall

Anxious People, Fredrik Backman

The Fair Botanists, Sara Sheridan

The Blackhouse, Peter May

The Inimitable Jeeves, PG Wodehouse

Dancing in the Mosque, Homeira Qaderi, trans Zaman Stanizai

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, Dave Goulson

Dearly, Margaret Atwood

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Wheels Within Wheels, Dervla Murphy