Reading list

Summer Reading

Written by Clare HieattCreativity
A list of books that we have either read on recent trips, or that friends have recommended, or that we have spotted in a book shop and added to the list of reads for our next break.

Complete switch off.

The books that will keep you lying on that sun lounger all day long. Just add sunscreen.

There Are Rivers in the Sky

By Elif Shafak.

The Correspondent

By Virginia Evans

Still Life

By Sarah Winman

Strangers

By Belle burden

London Falling

By Patrick Radden Keefe

James

By Percival Everett

Reframe and Reset.

Come back from your holiday with a different perspective and a suitcase full of good intentions.

The Book of Magical Living

By Poppy Jamie

Build

By Tony Fadell

Do Interesting

By Russell Davies

Tiny Experiments

By Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Superforecasting

By Dan Gardner & Philip Tetlock

Outlive

By Bill Gifford & Peter Attia

Ideas for your next trip.

Don’t leave your holiday without a plan for your next big adventure.

Lifelines

By Julian Hoffman

Lone Wolf

By Adam Weymouth

A Wagon in the Woods

By James Aldred

Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand

By Tim parks

To the Edge of the World

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

A Woman in the Polar Night

By Christiane Ritter & Jane Degras

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Be Retreat - Clare Hieatt
Clare Hieatt
Co-Founder
Clare is C-Founder of Hiut Denim and The DO Lectures and, most recently, be retreat, yoga retreat in Cardigan, UK. Clare has often thought that she would love to host a small, relaxing and restorative gathering of women, where they could step out of the day-to-day and hang out together sharing stories around a campfire. The first be retreat is being held on the farm that is Clare’s family home and home of The Do Lectures which Clare and her...

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