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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
Louis Schwartzberg and Eugenia Bone
£25.00 £23.25Beautifully 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
Sarah Gainham
£12.99 £12.08Recommended to me and evocative and chilling. The story of Vienna as the Nazis took over.

All My Colors
David Quantick
£26.99 £25.10David 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
David Seabrook
£10.00 £9.30Sad, elegiac, disturbing portrait of the eddies of English - especially Kentish - life

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Peter Godfrey-Smith
£9.99 £9.29Fascinating look at what constitutes intelligence (warning: contains a shocking fact about octopus lives...)

Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
Susanna Clarke
£14.99 £13.94I 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
Sophie Rickard
£14.99 £13.94This 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
Robin Ince
£17.98 £16.72Robin was a guest at our first live/podcast event. What a great evening & the book is almost as good!

The Language of Food: "Mouth-watering and sensuous, a real feast for the imagination" BRIDGET COLLINS
Annabel Abbs
£14.99 £13.94All about Eliza Action and Mrs Beeton's plagiarism of her recipes.
Phil's reading list