Show Notes
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
Women’s Prize shortlist
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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