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Underland 

Author : Robert Macfarlane 

Published: 2019

Exploring beneath the ground as a way of exploring deep time

Synopsis 30 words


30 Dec '19  

30 Dec '19

non-fiction

The Living and The Dead in Winsford 

Author : Hakan Nesser 

Published: 2015

Synopsis extract: Woman and her dog spend the winter in isolated cottage on Exmoor on the run from her demons

Synopsis 18 words


30 Nov '19  

30 Nov '19

fiction

The Handmaid's Tale 

Author : Margaret Atwood 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Post deluvian life in a rump of the USA where fertility has collapsed and fertile women are enslaved as concubines by the ruling elite of an authoritarian state

Synopsis 28 words


01 Nov '19  

1 Nov '19

fiction

Hagseed 

Author : Margaret Atwood 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: Reworking of the Tempest (Shakespeare) through description of a workshop performance in a prison used by the director to take revenge on those who slighted him.

Synopsis 26 words


01 Oct '19  

1 Oct '19

fiction

The Closed Circle 

Author : Jonathan Coe 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


02 Sep '19

2 Sep '19

fiction

The Patterning Instinct 
A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning

Author : Jeremy Lent 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


02 May '19

2 May '19

non-fiction

The Way 

Author : Edward (Teddy) Goldsmith 

Published: 1992

No summary or synopsis available


23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

non-fiction

The Sudden Appearance of Hope 

Author : Claire North 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


01 Jan '19

1 Jan '19

fiction

Who Owns England? 

Author : Guy Shrubsole 

Published: 2019

Synopsis extract: subtitle: How we lost our Green & Pleasant Land, and how to Take It Back

Synopsis 15 words


01 Jan '19

1 Jan '19

non-fiction

Angels of Albion 

Author : Jane Robinson 

Published: 1996

Synopsis extract: Drawn from contemporary accounts by women (mem-sahibs) caught up in the 1857 Indian Mutiny (aka 1st War of Independence)

Synopsis 18 words


25 Oct '18  

25 Oct '18

non-fiction

Exit West 

Author : Mohsin Hamid 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Two young people in an unspecified middle eastern troubled city fall for each other and escape through a science fiction mechanism and drift apart

Synopsis 24 words


28 Aug '18  

28 Aug '18

non-fiction

Feral 

Author : George Monbiot 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Essays on our relationship with the wild world through the author's personal experiences.

Synopsis 13 words


23 Aug '18  

23 Aug '18

non-fiction

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist 

Author : Paul Kingsnorth 

Published: 2017

Synopsis extract: Collection of essays from 2011 to 2016 broadly explaining his transition from environmental activism in the 90s to a deep ecology approach and the Dark Mountain project.

Synopsis 25 words


06 Aug '18  

6 Aug '18

non-fiction

Single & Single 

Author : John le Carre 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Organised crime from Russia and Turkey meets HM Customs via a defector from the bank that cleans their money. ...

Synopsis 28 words


25 Jul '18  

25 Jul '18

fiction

How To Read Water 

Author : Tristan Gooley 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: A discourse on water from drops to oceans and its characteristics and quirks

Synopsis 13 words


22 Jul '18  

22 Jul '18

non-fiction

No Is Not Enough 
Defeating the New Shock Politics

Author : Naomi Klein 

Published: 2017

No summary or synopsis available


21 Jul '18  

21 Jul '18

non-fiction

The Shining Girls 

Author : Lauren Beukes 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Serial killer's failed victim tracks him down.

Synopsis 7 words


21 Jun '18  

21 Jun '18

fiction

Barkskins 

Author : Annie Proulx 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: Rambling through 350 years of history of humans in the boreal forsests of N.america focusing on the intersecting stories of the Sel family of Mi'kmak native americans and the Duchet/Duke family of settlers.

Synopsis 34 words


19 Jun '18  

19 Jun '18

fiction

The Legacy of Luna 

Author : Julia Butterfly Hill 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Luna is a giant redwood. ...

Synopsis 46 words


28 Apr '18  

28 Apr '18

non-fiction

The Ashes of London 

Author : Andrew Taylor 

Published: 2016

Synopsis extract: The aftermath of the great fire. ...

Synopsis 45 words


22 Apr '18  

22 Apr '18

fiction

In a Green Shade 

Author : Richard Mabey 

Published: 1983

Synopsis extract: Collection of previously published essays from magazines and newspapers from about 1974

Synopsis 11 words


01 Apr '18  

1 Apr '18

non-fiction

The Quality of Silence 

Author : Rosamund Lupton 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Woman and 10yo deaf daughter travel across Alaska in winter on the Dalton Highway to find husband/father. ...

Synopsis 27 words


01 Apr '18  

1 Apr '18

fiction

Guns, Germs and Steel 

Author : Jared Diamond 

Published: 1997

Synopsis extract: Human history explained from a geological, ecological, anthropological, linguistic and archeological perspective

Synopsis 12 words


17 Mar '18  

17 Mar '18

non-fiction

The Moth Snowstorm 
Nature and Joy

Author : Michael McCarthy 

Published: 2015

Synopsis extract: Personal account of authors involvement and love for the world. ...

Synopsis 22 words


01 Mar '18  

1 Mar '18

non-fiction

Turtles All The Way Down 

Author : John Green 

Published: 2000

No summary or synopsis available


22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

non-fiction