Just a few of my favourite books…
NON-FICTION
- Maiden Voyage, by Tania Aebi
- Around the Sound, by Doreen Armitage
- The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577 – 1580, by Samuel Bawlfe
- The Joy of Writing, by Pierre Berton
- Leonardo: the Artist and the Man, by Serge Bramly
- 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Andrew Bridgeford
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
- Joy Adamson, by Caroline Cass
- I’ll Tell You a Secret, by Anne Coleman
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
- The Frailty Myth, by Colette Dowling
- Elizabeth & Mary, by Jane Dunn
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller
- Reason for Hope, by Jane Goodall
- Through a Window, by Jane Goodall
- The Scientists, by John Gribbin
- The Lost Painting, by Jonathan Harr
- The Earth Dwellers, by Erich Hoyt
- Orca: the Whale called Killer, by Erich Hoyt
- Einstein in Berlin, by Thomas Levenson
- Ancient People of the Arctic, by Robert McGhee
- The Last Imaginary Place: a Human History of the Arctic World, by Robert McGhee
- 1421, by Gavin Menzies
- Ancestral Passions: the Leakey family, by Virginia Morrell
- Listening to Whales, by Alexandra Morton
- The Bunker, by James P. O’Donnell
- Living Out Loud, by Anna Quindlen
- The Guynd, by Belinda Rathbone
- Island of the Colour Blind, by Oliver Sacks
- Bird Brains: the Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays, by Candace Savage
- Galileo’s Daughter, by Dava Sobel
- Cedar, by Hilary Stewart
- The Golden Spruce, by John Vaillant
- Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester
- The Map That Changed The World, by Simon Winchester
FICTION
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- The Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
- The Jade Peony, by Wayson Choy
- The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh
- A Student of the Weather, by Elizabeth Hay
- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
- The Forest Lover, by Susan Vreeland
