Non fiction – Page 2 – Scuffed Granny

The Night Garden: Of My Mother by Sandra Tyler

Sandra Tyler in her memoir has crafted something which at times is hard to read in its candour but whose essence is deeply touching

A wonderful book compiled from a collection of letters, depicting the time Isabella Bird spent in the Rockies in the 1800s

A bookseller tells us about selling books alongside a history of books; but this is not just about facts. This is about the love of books

An honest, sometimes excruciatingly so, collection of personal essays, which is also incredibly witty and made this reader laugh out loud

Not so much a book as an essay in book form, this little hardback is a treatise on why children’s books should be read by adults too.

The subject of death is discussed with sensitivity by Sue Black, within the context of her work but also as a human being

The fictionalised true story of Lale Sokolov, the tattooist of Auschwitz – a tale of human survival and the will to endure, as well as love

A strange little book, crammed with notes written by flatmates with witty and irreverent discussion of and conjecture about, their contents

A wake-up call, raising awareness of the truly wonderful creatures which inhabit our wonderful world and how unlikely they are to thrive

Beaulieu’s memoir is a brutally honest examination of her family’s history and, in particular, her three brothers and their untimely ends