Watermill Reading Recommendations - June
One of the great sporting events of the year will begin soon and some people will be looking forward to the event! For the keen football fan we have “The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup”. This book is an almanac, a guide and a programme all in one. The 32 competing nations are featured; each piece a memoir by a leading journalist or novelist along with statistics of the country’s involvement in the tournament.
For those who would rather avoid the football we have signed copies of the next instalment of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency entitled “Blue Shoes and Happiness”. This another gentle tale of tea-drinking, blackmail and, to the amusement of Mma Ramotswe’s friends, a diet to be kept to.
Botswana may not be at the finals of the Football World Cup but France definitely are and the next recommendation is a book set in France. “Narrow Dog to Carcassonne” is the humorous story of retirees Terry and Monica Darlington, and their whippet, on a journey from Staffordshire down to the Mediterranean in a narrow boat.
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Getting closer to home, Scotland is definitely not in Germany for the finals but the last two recommendations are Scottish books. “George Mackay Brown a Life” is the biography of one Scotland’s greatest twentieth-century writers. The biographer is the only one to whom Mackay Brown gave his blessing and this is a fascinating book of the artist’s life.
New out in paperback is “Black Watch” by John Parker, the story of the oldest Highland regiment in the British army. This sold very well in hardback.
Happy reading, or watching football during June.
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