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Non fiction reads

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Onwayto50 · 07/05/2024 14:30

I used to be a huge fiction reader but am really enjoying non fiction now. Love anything political but also eclectic! I loved The Idiot Brain and I’m looking forward to The Shipping Forecast. Any recs for some
great non fiction reads?

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Onwayto50 · 07/05/2024 15:51

Mothership4two · 07/05/2024 15:33

I expect you have read the Salt Path? Also Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn was different and interesting - how plants naturally rewild abandoned human habitation. I also enjoyed Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black about forensic anthropology but it's pretty dark and not for everyone.

I have read The Saltpath which I loved but not the other two!! Oh the Sue Black one sounds fascinating - I loved the Christmas Lectures on forensic anthropology a few years back so I think that’ll be right up my street! I’ll give them both a go.

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Mothership4two · 07/05/2024 15:33

I expect you have read the Salt Path? Also Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn was different and interesting - how plants naturally rewild abandoned human habitation. I also enjoyed Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black about forensic anthropology but it's pretty dark and not for everyone.

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