Reading 2022
- The Dawn of Everything: A new History of Humanity. David Graeber and David Wengrow.
- The Frontiers of Knowledge: Whaat We Now Know about Science, History and the Mind. A.C. Grayling.
- Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World. Elinor Leghorn.
- Greek Myths: A New Retelling. Charlotte Higgins.
- The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird. Joshua Hammer.
- Red Thread: On Mazes & Labyrinths. Charlotte Higgins
- The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. Henry Kissinger, Erica Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher.
- H is for Hawk. Helen Macdonald.
- Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Zena Hitz.
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Becky Chambers.
- A Closed and Common Orbit. Becky Chambers.
- To be Taught If Fortunate. Becky Chambers.
- Record of a Spaceborn Few. Becky Chambers.
- The World we Create: From God to Market. Tomas Björkman.
- The Galaxy and the Ground Within. Becky Chambers.
- Bildung – Keep Growing: Report to the Club of Rome. Lene Rachel Andersen.
- The Cat Who Saved Books. Sosuke Natsukawa.
- Klara and The Sun. Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The Weirdest People in the World: How the West became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Joseph Henrich.
- Three Epic Battles That Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis. Stephen P. Kershaw.
- Powers and Thrones: A New History of The Middle Ages. Dan Jones.
- Persians: The Age of The Great Kings. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
- Philip & Alexander: Kings and Conquerors. Adrian Goldsworthy.
- Nomads: The Wanderers who Shaped our World. Anthony Sattin.
- The Bird: The Great Age of Avian Illustration. Phillip Kennedy.*
- The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCR – 1492 CE. Simon Schama
- Elektra: Jennifer Saint
- Ithaca. Claire North.
- How Birds Work: An Illustrated Guide to Form and Function – From Bones to Beak. Marianne Taylor.
- Bird Anatomy for Artists. Natalia Bali.
- Homage to the Bird. Greg Oatley (manipulated hyper realistic digital images.
- Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story. Natalie Haynes.
- The Botanical Illustrator’s Handbook. Sally Pinhey.
- If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face: My adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating. Alan Alda.
- Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth. David Attenborough
- The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration: An artist’s guide to drawing and illustrating realistic flora, fauna and botanical scenes from nature. Mindy Lighthipe.
- Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Minerology, Anatomy and the Arts. Trans. Patrick Syme
- Capturing the Essence: Techniques for Bird Artists. William T Cooper.
- Color Mixing in Acrylic: Learn to mix fresh, vibrant colors for still life’s, landscapes, portraits and more. David Lloyd Glover.
- A Short Philosophy of Birds. Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau.
- Extraordinary Birds: Natural Histories: Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library. Paul Sweet.
- Histoire des Oiseaux. Francois Nicolas Martinet.
- Australian Parrots. Joseph M. Forshaw, illustrated by William T. Cooper (for reference and the illustrations).
- User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work and play. Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant.
- Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World. Tara Isabella Burton.
- Nature’s Palette. Introduced by Patrick Baty.
- Nights of Plague. Orhan Pamuk.
- A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. David Attenborough.
- Nature and Its Symbols. Lucia Impelluso translated by Stephen Satarelli.
- The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour. David Attenborough.
- Medicine – A Graphic History. Jean-Noel Fabiani & Philippe Bercovici.
- Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art, Second Edition. Penny Olsen.
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