Best non-fiction

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Looking for recommendations for any non-fiction books, doesn't matter the subject matter, the wider the variety the better. I'm just looking for things that are nicely written and easy to follow.

Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World
Tracey Borman, Thomas Cromwell

Bad blood by John Carreyrou! Don't google it as there is so much information out there after they made two documentaries etc just cold read x

The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley is a book which is a mine of information on nature, the weather etc - An enjoyable read for a hill walker, I like to dip in and out of as it is full of facts.

Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard was enjoyable - a woman's battle to change environmentally unfriendly logging traditions in Canada.

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The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley is a book which is a mine of information on nature, the weather etc - An enjoyable read for a hill walker, I like to dip in and out of as it is full of facts.

Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard was enjoyable - a woman's battle to change environmentally unfriendly logging traditions in Canada.

Finding the Mother Tree is one of my favourite recent reads.

To add, as well as her battle with logging companies, it's about her work on how (and how much/sophisticatedly) trees communicate with each other and use fungus to do so. Utterly fascinating.

East West Street by Philippe Sands or indeed anything that's won the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize.

Crown and Sceptre - Tracy Borman

Biography of people you're interested in - depends what you're into!

Joan Didion, 'The Center Will Not Hold'.
Also, 'The Year of Magical Thinking'.

Antony Beevor, 'Stalingrad'.

Julia Boyd, 'Travelers in the Third Reich'.

Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, 'Shattered' (about Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign).

I’m nearly finished the audiobook Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill & Racheal Wiseman. I’ve really enjoyed it, it’s based on the lives of Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe.

It does cover philosophy in quite a bit of detail and who all the key thinkers were in Oxford/Cambridge and some parts of Europe. As this period covers the early days of women being able to graduate from Oxford and the Second World War the social history included has been really fascinating.

Usually, when you read biographies about men they are painted as either gods or monsters, but all four women are presented as fairly normal women, trying to negotiate life but with a lot of thought given to philosophical ideas.

Tim Marshall writes very accessible books about geopolitics such as Prisoners of Geography. Got me back in to reading non-fiction again.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates
What Is A Girl Worth? - Rachael Denhollander
Jews Don't Count - David Baddiel
The Secret Barrister - Anon
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skoot
How Not To Be A Boy - Robert Webb
All The Young Men - Ruth Coker Burks
Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger