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Mindfulness and Surfing - Sam Bleakley (Leaping Hare 2016)
The surfboard…allows you to translate the energy of the moving wave into an experience felt so deeply in your body, mind and spirit that...
The Search Warrant - Patrick Modiano (Harvill Press 2000)
They are the sort of people who leave few traces. Virtually anonymous. Inseparable from those Paris streets, those suburban landscapes...
Proof of Heaven - Dr Eben Alexander (Simon and Schuster 2012)
When I was initially in the Realm of the Earthworm’s-Eye View, I had no real centre of consciousness. I didn’t know who or what I was, or...
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (Simon and Schuster 2016)
We bring our best, everything we have…to remind you of everything you have, your best. With Springsteen, I’ve always assumed what you see...
A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James (Oneworld 2014)
If it no go so, it go near so. As the title suggests, this book is about killing, but the ‘seven’ on the cover hugely underplays the body...
Barbarian Days - William Finnegan (Penguin 2005)
Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit. This feels like a few books in one: autobiography, surfing almanac,...
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (Heinemann Ltd 1960)
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. What is it about this book? Over 30,000,000 copies sold, a Pulitzer...
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins 1998)
History holds all things in the balance, including large hopes and short lives. Set about 70 years after Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, this...
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte 1969)
All this happened, more or less.​ With deadpan humour and absurd style Vonnegut chronicles the lead up to the bombing of Dresden from the...
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (Jonathan Cape Ltd 1986)
The Republic of Gilead, said Aunt Lydia, knows no bounds. Gilead is within you. This dystopian novel’s first person narrator, Offred, is...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (Viking Press 1962)
One flew East, one flew West, and one flew over the... There can’t be many heroes in English literature whose triumph is hoped for as...
Breath - Tim Winton (Penguin 2008)
It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about. I should start by declaring I know...
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