Francis Spufford

20 books

The Antarctic: an anthology of the finest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic by Elizabeth Kolbert, Francis Spufford

The Antarctic: an anthology of the finest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic

The ends of the earth #2

Elizabeth Kolbert, Francis Spufford

281 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford

Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Francis Spufford

252 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology challenging informative medium-paced
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

Cahokia Jazz

Francis Spufford

484 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford

The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

Francis Spufford

224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed

C.S. Lewis

112 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion reflective medium-paced
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

Francis Spufford

388 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration by Ernest Shackleton, Edward Abbey, Clint Willis, Francis Spufford, George W. DeLong, David Legge Brainard, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Lennard Bickel, Charles Neider, Michael McRae, Marie Herbert, Nancy Mitford, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Barry Lopez, Robert Falcon Scott, Beryl Bainbridge

Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration

Ernest Shackleton, Edward Abbey, Clint Willis, Francis Spufford, George W. DeLong, David Legge Brainard, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Lennard Bickel, Charles Neider, Michael McRae, Marie Herbert, Nancy Mitford, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Barry Lopez, Robert Falcon Scott, Beryl Bainbridge

374 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction travel adventurous reflective medium-paced
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Light Perpetual

Francis Spufford

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford

Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream

Francis Spufford

448 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction historical speculative fiction adventurous informative medium-paced
True Stories: And Other Essays by Francis Spufford

True Stories: And Other Essays

Francis Spufford

360 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays reflective slow-paced