Dara McAnulty
Book Shambles
Last year Dara McAnulty, at just 16 years of age, won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Coincidentally, that category was presented by us at The Cosmic Shambles Network, so today, as Dara’s second book, Wild Child, hits shelves he took time out from studying for his maths exam next week to come on the podcast to chat to Robin and Helen Czerski. They chat about nature, climate, optimism, birds, Oliver Sacks, Andrei Tarkovsky and much more!
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Books recommended this week include:
Wild Child by Dara McAnulty
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms by Charles Darwin
Zona by Geoff Dyer
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
Through A Window by Jane Goodall
The poems of John Clare
The poems of Seamus Heaney
The work of Robert Macfarlane
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney edited by Dennis O’Driscoll
William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England by Keith Thomas
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb
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