A Serendipitous Stroll Through Fifty Excellent, Little-Known Books
Kate McCallum
Lecture 1: Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain
James McBride, The Color of Water
Emilie Carles, A Wild Herb Soup
Evan Rogers, A Funny Old Quist
Laura Shaine Cunningham, Sleeping Arrangements
Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost
Jonathan Kaplan, The Dressing Station: A Surgeon’s Odyssey
Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, To War with Whitaker
A Serendipitous Stroll Through Fifty Excellent, Little-Known Books
Kate McCallum
Lecture 2: Travel and Exploration
Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World
Alfred Lansing, Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
Kelly Tyler-Lewis, The Lost Men: The Harrowing Story of Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party
Georgina Howell, Daughter of the Desert: Gertrude Bell
W H Tilman, The Ascent of Nanda Devi
Norman Lewis, Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
Gavin Maxwell, A Reed Shaken By the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Eric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Robert MacFarlane, The Old Ways
Fuschia Dunlop, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper
A Serendipitous Stroll Through Fifty Excellent, Little-Known Books
Kate McCallum
Lecture 3: History and Letters
Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game
Fergus Fleming, Barrow’s Boys
Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Mark Kurlansky, Salt
Norman Lewis, Naples ‘44
Irfan Orga, Portrait of a Turkish Family
Charles van Onselen, The Seed is Mine
Charlotte Mosley (ed), Patrick Leigh Fermor, In Tearing Haste
William Maxwell (ed), Sylvia Townsend Warner: Letters
Charlotte Mosley (ed), The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
A Serendipitous Stroll Through Fifty Excellent, Little-Known Books
Kate McCallum
Lecture 4: Non-fiction
Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything
Mary Roach, Gulp
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm
Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight
Irvin Yalom, Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Mark Vanhoenacker, Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Catherine Burns (ed), The Moth
William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Josepha Byrne, Mrs Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words
A Serendipitous Stroll Through Fifty Excellent, Little-Known Books
Kate McCallum
Lecture 5: Fiction
Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander (et al)
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
Jim Crace, Harvest
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant’s House
Bernice Rubens, Yesterday in the Back Lane
Graham Swift, Waterland
Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
Helen Simpson, Four Bare Legs in a Bed