CCCU. Autumn Reads - Folkestone Book Festival 2020

Modern Nature: The Journals of Derek Jarman

Paperback, 03/05/2018, £9.99

£7.00

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAINGIn 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness.

Smiling in Slow Motion: Journals, 1991-1994

Jarman, Derek

Paperback, 02/08/2018, £9.99

£7.00

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994.

Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

Harrison, Melissa

Hardback, 05/11/2020, £10.49

'A writer of great gifts.' - Robert Macfarlane I now live a richly connected year, marked by seasonal events: the first snowdrop in my garden, cut and brought inside;

Plot 29: A Memoir: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD AND WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE

Jenkins, Allan

Paperback, 03/05/2018, £9.99

£7.00

'When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.'

Morning: How to make time

Jenkins, Allan

Paperback, 07/03/2019, £8.99

£7.00

`This is my manifesto for morning. There is an energy in the earlier hours, an awareness I enjoy. In today's world we tend to wake as late as we can, timed to when we have to work. But we don't need to chase the day.'

All Among the Barley

Harrison, Melissa

Paperback, 07/03/2019, £8.99

£7.00

Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption

McCrum, Robert

Hardback, 03/09/2020, £14.99

£12.00

A deeply personal journey into Shakespeare's work that explores how it remains relevant and always has something to say about the times we are living in.