By now you should have seen the first two parts of this years’ pre-festival reading suggestions, courtesy of our friends at Church House Bookshop who run our festival bookstore, G-Books. If you missed them you can see them HERE and HERE, along with some offers if you act quickly!
Here, we round up a single comprehensive list of most of the books written by this year’s festival speakers that like to delve into before we gather this August Bank Holiday.
Because we are Greenbelt… Somewhere to read in!
(Sorry if it looks a bit like a shopping list. But then, it sort of is!)
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin’s Story
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon – A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour
Jamie Bartlett
Radicals
Yvonne Battle-Felton
Remembered
Belarus Free Theatre
On Freedom: Powerful Polemics by Supporters of Belarus Free Theatre
Mike Berners-Lee
There Is No Plan B
Grace Blakely
Stolen: How to Save The World from Financialisation
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Shameless
Russell Brand
Revolution & Mentors
James Cary
The Sacred Art of Joking
Wendy Cope
Anecdotal Evidence
Emma Dabiri
Don’t Touch My Hair
Anjula Devi
Spice for Life: Healthy and Wholesome Indian Cooking
Danny Dorling
Peak Inequality: Britain’s ticking time bomb
Danny Dorling (with Sally Tomlinson)
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of Empire
Bob Gilbert
Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish
Julia Golding
The Curious Crime (one for the younger readers)
Miles Irving
The Forager Handbook
Mariam Khan (editor)
It’s Not About The Burqa: Muslim Women of Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
Michael Leunig
The Essential Leunig: Cartoons from a Winding Path
Rachel Mann
A Kingdon of Love
Paul Mason
Clear Bright Future
Tom McLeish
The Poetry of Music and Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art
Saffia Minney
Slave To Fashion
Jack Monroe
Tin Can Cook
Cole Moreton
The Lighthouse Keeper
Mark Oakley
By Way of the Heart
Rupert Shortt
Does Religion Do More Harm Than Good?
Peter Stanford
Angels: a visible and invisible history
Mark Vernon
A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Vicky Walker
Relatable
Tony Walsh
Sex & Love & Rock & Roll
Anthony Wilson
The Afterlife, and Deck Shoes
MICHAEL RAMSEY PRIZE NOMINATED TITLES
Ilioa Delio
Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness
Keith Eyeons
The Theology of Everything: Renaissance Man Joins the 21st Century
Jill Harshaw
God Beyond Words: Christian Theology and the Spiritual Experiences of People with Profound Intellectual Disabilities
Krish Kandiah
God is Stranger: What happens when God turns up?
Rachel Mann
Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God
Mark Oakley
The Splash of Words: Believing in Poetry
RADICAL READING: PROVOCATION FROM PLUTO
Peter Bloom
Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data
Vickie Cooper
The Violence of Austerity
Gurminder Bhambra
Decolonising the University
And finally – look out for this at the festival…
Murray Watts, Yours Truly