Things We Found in The Ground: A Metal-Detecting Journey Through Britain by Eleanor Bruce and Lucilla Gray
There’s something immediately engaging about Things We Found in the Ground, at times it reads like being invited along on a windswept walk with two very enthusiastic companions. Rather than a traditional guide to metal detecting, this is a highly personal memoir about reconnecting (with each other, with place, and with the past) which finds joy in the small things
A Different Shade of Green by Britta Freemantle
A warm and engaging memoir rooted firmly in the author’s own journey—from growing up in Germany to building a life on the Dorset coast with her English husband
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin is fascinating insight into the science of what is happening in your brain when you listen to music …
Neurodivergent, By Nature
Neurodivergent, by Nature, by Joe Harkness is a great insight and indeed handbook into understanding how neurodivergent people see the world …
The Whispers of Rock by Dr Anjana Khatwa
Whispers of Rock by Dr Anjana Khatwa is quite unlike anything I’ve ever read and moved me in ways that I could not possibly have foreseen.
Burn by Ben Short
I’ve just finished reading Burn by Ben Short. Personal accounts and memoirs have not been a big part of my reading in the past but this book has definitely prompted me to add this genre of writing to my repertoire of reads.
Upon A White Horse by Peter Ross
From Stonehenge at mid-winter dawn to midsummer at Sycamore Gap, and from Ireland’s bog bodies to Dorset’s chalk giants, this is a journey that offers so much more than an exploration of the ancient sites.
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
Raising Hare is a masterpiece of nature writing – a tender, wise, and gorgeously observed memoir that blends lyrical descriptions with fascinating facts about hares, born of the author’s experience rescuing and raising a leveret.