Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

7 best books like Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach (Jean Sprackland): The Guest Cat, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, Findings, A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning, Holloway, Landmarks

The Guest Cat

Author	Takashi Hiraide
ISBN	0811221504

A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live...

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Author	Mary Norris
ISBN	1324001275

The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.

In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...

Findings

Author	Kathleen Jamie
ISBN	0954221745

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...

A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Author	Gretel Ehrlich
ISBN	0140179372

A powerful chronicle of a wounded woman’s exploration of nature and self

After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary...

Holloway

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0571302718

Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock.

In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into...

Landmarks

Author

Robert Macfarlane

Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...