1009 MORE EXCELLENT, LITTLE-KNOWN BOOKS

Kate McCallum, reader, traveller and publisher, and Joe Tyrrell, reader, traveller and cardiologist

I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers

And none but the thread that binds them is my own.                                                    Montaigne

In this five-lecture course Kate McCallum and Joe Tyrrell will give their personal recommendations for excellent books that may not be known to a well-read South African audience – the ones that create that feeling of delighted serendipity when first discovered. Along the way there will be enthusiastic recommendations of other books by the same author, other authors, and interesting publishers such as Canongate. All tastes, interests, and sexes catered for.

LECTURE TITLES

1. Autobiography, biography, and memoir Kate McCallum

2. History, anthropology, archaeology, and essays Kate McCallum

3. Travel and exploration: sea, mountain, air, and desert Joe Tyrrell

4. Non-fiction Kate McCallum

5. Fiction: English, American, Canadian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Indian, Swedish, Chinese Kate McCallum

Recommended reading

Download the reading list here.