Take a look at our non-fiction picks for July! Includes books about living with adult ADHD, tasty recipes, and nature books. All of these books and more are available to borrow for free with your library card.
The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North
Jenn Ashworth
Burnt out and longing for an escape, Jenn Ashworth emerged from lockdown with a compulsive need to walk – and to walk away. Armed with little more than the knowledge imparted by a two-day orienteering course and a set of maps, she embarked on the most epic of English walks: Wainwright’s Coast to Coast. Guided not just by Wainwright’s writing but also by daily letters from her friend Clive – facing an epic journey of his own – Jenn’s pilgrimage soon becomes more than just walking: a chance to reconnect and excavate, to re-engage with the act of caring for others and for oneself.
Operation Sandworm: The Hunt for the Kremlin’s Invisible Army
Andy Greenberg
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world’s largest businesses. NotPetya spread around the world, inflicting an unprecedented ten billion dollars in damage – the largest, most destructive cyberattack the world had ever seen. This is the true story of the hunt to unmask Sandworm: the group of hackers behind the attacks working in service of Russia’s military intelligence agency.
The (Slightly Distracted) Woman’s Guide to Living With an Adult ADHD Diagnosis
Laura Kerbey and Eliza Fricker
Being a woman in your thirties and beyond is challenging enough when your brain works the way society expects – add ADHD into the mix and it opens a whole new can of worms! Written by Laura Kerbey – with witty illustrations from Eliza Fricker and quotes from other ADHD woman from across the world – this accessible, lived experience guide is here to help you make sense of you and your ADHD.
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Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life
Donna Leon
Donna Leon’s memoir, ‘Wandering Through Life’, gave her legions of fans a colourful tour through her life, from childhood in New Jersey to adventures in China and Iran, to her love of Venice and opera. Nowhere, however, did she discuss her writing life. In ‘Backstage’, Donna reveals her admiration for, and inspiration from, the great crime novelists Ruth Rendell and Ross Macdonald, examining their approach to storytelling as she dissects her favourite books of theirs.
Toast: 80 Delicious Recipes for Toast With a Twist
Katie Marshall
Elevating simple toasted bread – the world’s favourite comfort food – into delicious, mouth-watering meals. Featuring a range of international influences and celebrating fresh ingredients and exciting flavour combinations, ‘Toast’ is packed with 80 amazing toast-topper recipes for every occasion. From simple tuna melt and Welsh rarebit to sumptuous Scandi salmon on rye and more, these tasty recipes merge super-satisfying comfort food with refined tastes and textures that transform a humble toast-based meal into showstopper staples.
Remember When: My Life With Alzheimer’s
Fiona Phillips
Much-loved broadcaster Fiona Phillips was sixty-one when she discovered that she had early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. She had cared for her parents who had both suffered from the disease and now she was facing the same heartbreaking diagnosis – under no illusions about what it would mean for her and her family.
A heartfelt, moving and necessary book on what it is like to live with Alzheimer’s, by the hugely popular presenter Fiona Phillips, that will bring comfort to anyone suffering from the early onset of the disease, as well as their loved ones.
The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
Mandy Haggith
For the past century, a deadly pandemic has raged across the world, destroying all in its path and outmanoeuvring scientists’ desperate attempts to halt it. Dutch elm disease has killed hundreds of millions of trees globally and over 25 million in the UK alone, altering our landscapes forever. Few young people have seen a mature elm tree, yet they once covered great swathes of Europe and North America and their legacy lives on in our mythology. ‘The Lost Elms’ is a love letter to our vanished elms – the story of how we have nearly lost them all, and the long, slow fight back.
Outdoor Tracking Handbook: How to Find Anything in the Wild
Ray Mears
Ray Mears has accumulated his tracking skills over 35 years of practice in the field, all over the world, and this book is an authoritative but accessible and practical manual. A definitive category killer, here you have not only a go-to reference for professionals, from naturalists to police and military operatives, but also an essential guide for enthusiasts who want to discover the outdoors in a new way, and read the secret stories of animals and birds in the tracks they leave behind. Illustrated throughout and with clear instructions interlaced with Ray’s own inspiring first-hand experiences, this book offers you a thrilling self-education in the art of tracking.
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