Category: Biographical
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14 April 2026 – Super-Infinite – Katherine Rundell
Part biography, part intellectual adventure, Super-Infinite is Katherine Rundell’s exhilarating exploration of the life and mind of John Donne. Rundell does not follow a conventional cradle-to-grave account. Instead, she uses Donne as a jumping-off point to explore poetry, science, theology, and love. She also delves into the sheer strangeness of being alive. Written with wit…
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12 May 2026 – I Can Hear the Cuckoo – Kiran Sidhu
I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a quietly luminous novel. It explores themes of grief, solitude, and the natural world. Kiran Sidhu writes with great attentiveness, allowing landscape, seasons and daily rituals to shape the emotional life of the story. At its heart, this is a novel about withdrawal and return. It explores what happens…
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10th Sept 2024 – God Is An Octopus by Ben Goldsmith
Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris’s death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw…
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12th September 2023 – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit OR/AND Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Read one or both! ORANGES… ‘At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn’t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning’ This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God’s elect. Passionate, headstrong…
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