Join Amanda and Joseph for this week’s episode as they delve into the best that nature writing has to offer. Plus, as always, they talk about their current reads and what they're looking forward to picking up next, as well as the latest from the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist.
Bookish News
Recent Reads
Pearl Oyster by Sophie Robinson @sophiepoetry
London Falling, by Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe
Tilt by Emma Pattee
Nature Writing
Helm by Sarah Hall
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Overstory by Richard Powers
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan @michael.pollan
Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt @lyandahaupt
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald @emerillon
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton @chloedaltonuk
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer @robinwallkimmerer
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Soundings: Journeys In The Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham @doreenwriting
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Wintering by Katherine May @katherinemay_
Intertidal: A Coast And Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves @a_naturalists_column
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane @robertmacfarlane
Dart by Alice Oswald
What We’re Reading Next
California Gold by Jodie Chapman @jodiechapman
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Also mentioned
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