What was the last non fiction book you bought/ read/enjoyed?

[LemonAndAPear]

I'm always looking for non fiction recommendations and I'd appreciate any suggestions. Even if you haven't read it yet I'd be interested to know what you've bought recently.

TIA

The bomber boys trilogy by Kevin Wilson.

Unusually for me I have a few non-fiction on the go at the moment:

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Silk Dreams, Troubled Road by Jonny Bealey
The Swedish Art of Ageing Well by Margareta Magnusson
The Story of Art Without Men - Katy Hessel

Flitting between them as the mood takes me.

The man who tasted words - something like that. All about synaesthesia. V interesting!

The secret life of trees

Say Nothing, a book about the troubles in Northern Ireland reland

I recently read The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson and thought it was fab. It was my first BB - now reading A Short History of Almost Everything and am enjoying that too.

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson is great. Highly informative and very funny in places.

In TheGarden of Beasts - Eric Larson (non fiction). Set in.pre-war Germany it tells of the new American ambassador's difficulties in Hitler's Berlin. William Dodds is perhaps too mild for that position in that place as brutishness and cruelty mount. Jews,Socialists communists, Americans get assaulted in the street for.not returning the Nazi salute.
Dodds's daughter had affairs with both a high ranking Nazi and a communist diplomat. Dodos seems to have no influence with anyone anywhere. There was even a rumour that he had been appointed ambassador by mistake - doubtless a joke.
The book is fully of interesting anecdotes and details which reveal a great deal about the mindset of those who were just trying to get through it all.

Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem was a absolutely fascinating!

It's a wonderful audiobook too.

The Kings and Queens of England by David Starkey

Also enjoyed The Devils Disciples - can't remember who wrote it but about the people around Hitler and how they pandered to his lunacy

I'm yet to start reading it, but the most recent I bought is Humanly Possible: Seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, enquiry and hope by Sarah Bakewell.

Earlier this year I enjoyed Andrea Wulf's recent book Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. Very readable and a fascinating subject.

We are Bellingcat

I'm quite enjoying Taking Command by General David Richards. Interesting seeing more detail about the actions our troops have done over the years without too much boring technical detail.

The 33 strategies of war

The 48 laws of power

Da Vinci's biography

The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race

Currently reading 'Femina' by Janina Ramirez.

I'm enjoying it although I think I would be enjoying it more in a paper version. Images on a kindle aren't as good

This is not America - why black lives in Britain matter.

It's fantastic.

Oranges are not the only fruit is a great memoir by Janette Winterson. Also troublemaker by Leah Remini, all about Scientology.

I loved the hidden life of trees & Wilding.

Nothing to envy is pretty old now but still fascinating about lives of those in N Korea.

All the young men about the early AIDS crisis & one woman who helped

Prisoners of geography is really good too & invisible women is a must read!

Dan Jones' "The Hollow Crown".

Recently bought at a Charity event.
William Armstrong the Magician of the North. by Henrietta Heald.
He was a contemporary of Stephenson, Brunel Darwin and Whitworth.
A revelation about the intellectual world of the UK.
A supporter of the "Lit and Phil" in Newcastle. It rivalled the Royal Society in London.
Only dipped into it so far.

Oh, and currently listening to Chris Packham reading his autobiography, from the library via Borrowbox.b