Walking Book Club
By Seven Fables
Walking Book Club
By Seven Fables
Here you will find a selection of inspiring titles that we will be reading for our Walking Book Club, alongside titles that we have thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. Occasionally the author also joins us for a walk and talk in the woods of Dulverton, and we have even been known to go wild swimming!
Forthcoming walks and booking details can be found on our website here
All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
Dani Robertson
£16.99 £16.14SPECIAL EVENT: Do join us for a walk, and talk with Dani Robertson as part of The Exmoor Dark Skies Festival. Saturday 26th October 2024 Booking details on the Seven Fables website!
Wild Swimming Walks Exmoor & North Devon: 28 river, lake & coastal days out
Matt Newbury and Sophie Pierce
£14.99 £14.24SPECIAL EVENT: Do join us for a walk, talk and swim with Sophie Pierce. Sunday 8th September 2024 Booking details on the Seven Fables website!
The Green Hill: Letters to a son
Sophie Pierce
£18.99 £18.04SPECIAL EVENT: Do join us for a walk, talk and swim with Sophie Pierce. Sunday 8th September 2024 Booking details on the Seven Fables website!
Things Don’t Break On Their Own
Sarah Easter Collins
£16.99 £16.14SPECIAL EVENT: Do join us for a walk, talk with author Sarah Easter Collins. Saturday 20th July 2024 Booking details on the Seven Fables website! Sarah will also be in the shop during the morning for those unable to join the afternoon walk.
Birnam Wood: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Eleanor Catton
£9.99 £9.49Saturday 15th June 2024. Do join us in the woods of Exmoor to discuss Birnam Wood. Booking details on the Seven Fables website!
The House of Broken Bricks: 'Shocking and powerful . . . This is the best kind of story telling.' Victoria Hislop
Fiona Williams
£14.99 £14.24Signed copies now available directly from Seven Fables following our fabulous walk and talk in the bluebells with Fiona.
Night Swimmers: ‘Beautifully written and wonderful’ Daily Mail
Roisin Maguire
£16.99 £16.14Saturday 13th April 2024... The group was a little divided on their opinion of Night Swimmers although the majority fell for its wonderful, believable cast of characters, Grace in particular.
The Year of the Hare
Arto Paasilinna
£9.99 £9.49We knew that it was going to be a joyous afternoon when we caught sight of a large fine hare the morning of our walk - the perfect omen for our first Walking Book Club of 2024!
Mischief Acts: 'Joyous' THE TIMES, Best summer reads 2022
Zoe Gilbert
£9.99 £9.49The perfect read for when the veil is thin...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change
Catrina Davies
£12.99 £12.34A fabulous walk & talk with writer Catrina Davies, despite the rain!
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age
Katherine May
£16.99 £16.14A perfect Midsummer evening in the woods of Dulverton in conversation with writer Katherine May
The Colony
Audrey Magee
£14.99Highly recommended by the group. The landscape, characters and dialogue in Audrey Magee's The Colony were enthralling and a joy to read.
A Book Of Silence
Granta and Sara Maitland
£9.99 £9.49Our first walk & talk of 2023... And the wettest in ten years!
Swanfolk
Kristin Omarsdottir
£16.99 £16.14A curious read selected for our walk & talk on Independent Bookshop Day 2022
Drift: A story of love, magic and the irresistible lure of the sea
Caryl Lewis
£14.99We do like our selkie folklore at Seven Fables...
Women on Nature: 100+ Voices on Place, Landscape & the Natural World
£25.00 £23.75
The perfect title to celebrate the Spring Equinox - it was wonderful to walk and talk with Katharine Norbury in the woods of Dulverton. Signed copies available directly from Seven Fables.
Shalimar
Davina Quinlivan
£16.00 £15.20Davina Quinlivan joined our Walking Book club in April and signed copies of her beautiful book are available directly from Seven Fables.
The Summer Book: A Novel
Tove Jansson
£9.99 £9.49A read for when we were unable to meet and could only dream of summers spent with family...
Ring of Bright Water
Gavin Maxwell
£15.00 £14.25Otters are far more content living in the wild, perhaps us also!
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
£12.99 £12.34Such a wonderful book and a memorable walk with Katherine May
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
£10.99 £10.44It was an absolute delight to have Raynor Winn join our Walking Book Club, her and Moth are such an inspiration
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Laurie Lee
£9.99 £9.49So vividly depicted I can still visualise his Ma chasing after the 'sharra-bang' and her treasured chipped crockery!
Picnic At Hanging Rock: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick
Joan Lindsay
£9.99 £9.49Our first ever Walking Book Club title - perfect, and unsettling...
The Last Quarter of the Moon: A Novel
Chi Zijian
£9.99 £9.49A curious, sad and wonderful story full of wisdom, an all time favourite read and recently republished by Vintage Books.
All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld
£9.99 £9.49Echoes of Iain Rankin's cult classic The Wasp Factory...
The High House: Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award
Jessie Greengrass
£8.99 £8.54Contemporary fiction addressing our relationship with our environment, our home...
The Essex Serpent: from the Booker-longlisted author of Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
£9.99 £9.49Our Walking Book Club loved this wonderful tale - although felt it could have been even darker!
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Helen MacDonald
£10.99 £10.44Go feral with Helen Macdonald!
Cryers Hill
Kitty Aldridge
£7.99 £7.59This book has stayed with me so many years on from first reading - highly recommended.
The Owl Service
Alan Garner
£7.99 £7.59...inspired by The Mabinogi, tales that in turn inspire the work of artist Tamsin Abbott.