My Bookshelf

I love read­ing. As a kid I could not read enough, but in my ear­ly adult years I fell away from books some­what — I still read but not near­ly as reg­u­lar­ly. In recent times I have joined my local library and start­ed fill­ing my book­shelf again, and I am infi­nite­ly hap­pi­er for hav­ing done so.

If you’re inter­est­ed, here are the books I’m read­ing now, have read recent­ly or want to read in the future…

Currently reading

Books I’ve reviewed

Finished reading recently

The Aeneid

by Vir­gil (Pub­lius Vergilius Maro)

Flee­ing the ash­es of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Ili­ad, begins an incred­i­ble jour­ney to ful­fill his des­tiny as the founder of Rome.…
Clas­sics, Epic, His­to­ry, Poet­ry, War
Pub­lished by Pen­guin
 in 2008
The Escape Artist

by Jonathan Freed­land

In April 1944 a teenag­er named Rudolf Vrba was plan­ning a dar­ing and unprece­dent­ed escape from Auschwitz. After hid­ing in a pile of tim­ber planks…
His­to­ry, Non-fic­tion, War
Pub­lished by John Mur­ray, London 
 in 2022
5, Could­n’t put it down
Bicycle Diaries

by David Byrne

An enchant­i­ng cel­e­bra­tion of bike rid­ing and of the rewards of see­ing the world at bike lev­el, this book gives the read­er an incred­i­ble insight…
Bike tour­ing, Trav­el
Pub­lished by Faber & Faber Limited
 in 2009
4, Good book
Able

by Dylan Alcott

Dylan Alcott has nev­er let his dis­abil­i­ty get in the way of what he want­ed to achieve. In this ful­ly updat­ed edi­tion of Able, which…
Aus­tralia, Biog­ra­phy, Sport
Pub­lished by Harper­Collins Australia
 in 2019
3, Ordi­nary book

I want to read one day