Archive - The Wild Library

Walking the world as the seasons turn

I'm reading about hiking in Scotland and artists' last works while time marches on, as it tends to do.

Mar 31 •

February 2024

Hammock books and heavenly days

Shocker, I know, but I read a lot of books on holiday, so I thought I'd tell you about them. (Don't worry, I've got the back-to-work blues now like…

Feb 1 •

December 2023

My year in nature books

In the "A Year In..." format beloved of nature books, I present: My Year in Nature Books. (Now there's an idea for a book...)

Dec 20, 2023 •

November 2023

Searching for peace

Books about retreat, from Charlotte Wood's new novel to a 70-year-old classic

Nov 25, 2023 •

September 2023

I dream of deserts, both desolate and blooming

Because I'm reading William Atkins' The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

Sep 15, 2023 •

August 2023

Probably my only ever post about sport

And it's investigating why some people insist I ought to enjoy watching it. Which, to be clear, I really don't.

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

I'm an open book...

At least, on the topic of how I find books to read.

Jul 18, 2023 •

November 2022

What I'm reading: women at work; women in love

I'm off to ancient Greece and 19th-century France, reading Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho.

Nov 13, 2022 •

October 2021

Raising our voices

What happens when lone enraptured males are banished and women speak up about nature? I'm reading Katharine Norbury's Women on Nature.

Oct 1, 2021 •

September 2021

When spring ain't spring

I get grumpy about European seasons and read Richard Mabey's biography of Gilbert White

Sep 3, 2021 •

August 2021

Getting salty, feeling blue

Reading The Salt Path and cooking through lockdown. Again.

Aug 6, 2021 •

June 2021

The Fox and the Raven

I'm reading Catherine Raven's The Fox & I

Jun 4, 2021 •

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