You know, the good folks of my adoptive county are so full of themselves sometimes…'Appen today is Yorkshire Day.
2006 Books
A list of the books read by me during 2006.
by Jenny Uglow
A collective biography of a remarkable group of friends.
by Simon Gray
Playwright Simon Gray's follow-up to The Smoking Diaries.
by Richard Mabey
Nature writer recovers from depression by reconnecting with nature.
by Steve Jones
Short science essays from the famous geneticist and snail man.
by Sandra Herbert
What Charles Darwin did for geology.
by Robert MacFarlane
Mankind's new-found passion for mountains.
by Wilkie Collins
Victorian blockbuster.
by Alain de Botton
How people worry about their status, and what they can do about it.
by Joseph Heller
There was only one catch…
by Janine di Giovanni
Journalism from the world's war zones.
by Noam Chomsky / David Barsamian
What America (and the rest) is really up to.
by David Sedaris
Laugh-out-loud autobiographical humour.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
A collection of writing mostly themed around religious belief and its effects.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
A collection of writing themed around travel.
by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett at his Alan Bennettest.
by Richard Mabey
A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne.
by Steve Fuller
Over-academic analysis of two differing scientific philosophies.
by Ian Jack (ed.)
A collection of writing themed around relationships.
by Steven Poole
How language is (ab)used in order to persuade by stealth.
