Posts in Recommended Reading
Tempest in a Teapot: Seafaring Adventures at Home
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickIn the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger, Erebus, Michael Palin, Yiddish for Pirates, Gary Barwin, Life of Pi, Yann Martel, We The Drowned, Carsten Jensen, The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware, Dangerous Crossing, Rachel Rhys, Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, Skinny Dip, Carl Hiassen, The Sea The Sea, Iris Murdoch, Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, Homer, Odyssey
Perfect Pairings: Books and Champagne
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickNancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Don't Tell Alfred, P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Laura Wood, Sky Painted Gold, Dorothy Sayers, Clouds of Witness, Agatha Christie, Sparkling Cyanide, Nicola Upson, An Expert in Murder, Jessica Fellowes, The Mitford Murders, Taylor Jenkins, The Seven Husbands of Evelyng Hugo, Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure, William Gerhardie, Futility
At Home with a Sunburn: The Best Vampire Fiction
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickSalem's Lot, Stephen King, Carmilla, Sheridan LeFanu, Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice, I am Legend, Richard Matheson, Lady of the House of Love, Angela Carter, Blood Disease, Patrick McGrath
Armchair Birdwatching: Books with even the slightest focus on ornithology
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickAnne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, The Genius of Birds, Jennifer Ackerman, The Twelve Birds of Christmas, Stephen Moss, John Lewis-Stempel, Where the Poppies Blow, The Feather Thief, Kirk Wallace Johnson
Creating a better dystopia
A Very Brief and Incomplete Guide to Literary Edinburgh
Rainy Days and Books in the Netherlands
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickAmy Sackville, Painter to the King, Orkney, Robert Harris, The Second Sleep, Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym, A View of the Harbour, Elizabeth Taylor, The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford, The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
Analog Entertainments: Books and Board Games
Recommended ReadingJennifer CornickRevenge of Analog, David Sax, Birth of the Chess Queen, Marilyn Yalom, Of Dice and Men, Dvid M. Ewalt, The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Alan Moore, Smax, Zander Cannon, Andrew Currie
Best Teen Reads … which do not include a chosen one, a sick one, magic, or sparkly vampires
Normal Girl Thoughts - My Favourite Murderesses in Fiction
Together we stand
