March Reading List

Our Reading List of March runs for its second month, as we share recommendations from our team. As usual, there is a broad range from different genres to appeal to everyone.


Pacific Pattern

Susanne Kuchler & Graeme Were

History/Design History


A great book exploring how the traditional fibre crafts of the Pacific island regions such as Samoa, Tahiti, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea, evolved alongside their colonial histories and colonial technologies that were introduced and exchanged across these regions. The photographs and featured archive images are beautiful.




The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

Claudia Hammond

Psychology

In today's busy world, rest is a treat which we try to fit in. This book looks at the top 10 restful techniques to help focus our busy minds and bodies, based on research across the world.

-Elizabeth

Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel

Adventure fiction

Set in a post pandemic world, we follow the lives of the Travelling Symphony as they journey through the desolate world to perform Shakespeare to those who are left. The book moves backwards and forwards looking at life just before the outbreak of the Georgia flu which wiped out a large percentage of the population and the world in the Year Twenty.

-Elizabeth



The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Dipesh Chakrabarty

History

If you are short on time, you can still make it through this book via the friendly and convenient Nottingham Contemporary slow-reading group which meets online once a month and reads the chapters together. They also provide all chapters as PDFs.



Speak Your Truth

Fearne Cotton

Essays

After an operation to remove a cyst on her vocal chord, Fearne experienced the loss of her voice as she needed to rest. Her journey to understand silence and where voices are not heard.

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