The bookshelf

Books to return to.

A short reading list about places, attention and the ways a life can be recorded in ordinary language.

The Peregrine — J. A. Baker

A sustained exercise in watching a familiar landscape until it becomes strange again. Read for the precision of its observations and the patience behind them.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost — Rebecca Solnit

Essays that leave room for uncertainty, landscape and unexpected connections. A useful companion to walking without a plan.

The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard

A book about the rooms and corners that become part of memory. Best read slowly, with time to look up from the page.

A small shelf, added to occasionally.