Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna All My Colors All The Devils Are Here
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
The Language of Food: The International Bestseller - "Mouth-watering and sensuous, a real feast for the imagination" BRIDGET COL Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna All My Colors
All The Devils Are Here Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

What's Phil been reading?

By Mr Books Bookshop

What's Phil been reading?

By Mr Books Bookshop

Another year gone by so here's an update of my reading

Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet

Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet

Louis Schwartzberg and Eugenia Bone

£30.00 £28.50

Beautifully produced book that goes with the Netflix documentary but tells you so much more about how fungi lives and can save lives

Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna

Night Falls On The City: The Lost Masterpiece of Wartime Vienna

Sarah Gainham

£12.99 £12.34

Recommended to me and evocative and chilling. The story of Vienna as the Nazis took over.

All My Colors

All My Colors

David Quantick

£7.99 £7.59

David Quantick - the comedy writer (recently a guest on our podcast) and a quirky, filmic story of a book that never existed.

All The Devils Are Here

All The Devils Are Here

David Seabrook

£10.99 £10.44

Sad, elegiac, disturbing portrait of the eddies of English - especially Kentish - life

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith

£10.99 £10.44

Fascinating look at what constitutes intelligence (warning: contains a shocking fact about octopus lives...)

Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

Susanna Clarke

£18.99 £18.04

I loved Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell and this drew me in from the start. Definitely one of my books of the year.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Sophie Rickard

£18.99 £18.04

This illustrated version tells the tale in an easily accessible way. Should be compulsory reading in all schools.

The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

Robin Ince

£17.99 £17.09

Robin was a guest at our first live/podcast event. What a great evening & the book is almost as good!

The Language of Food: The International Bestseller - "Mouth-watering and sensuous, a real feast for the imagination" BRIDGET COL

The Language of Food: The International Bestseller - "Mouth-watering and sensuous, a real feast for the imagination" BRIDGET COL

Annabel Abbs

£14.99 £14.24

All about Eliza Action and Mrs Beeton's plagiarism of her recipes.

Phil's reading list