Finished listening to Simon Winchester’s Atlantic, 2011, read by Simon himself. Good to listen to, very interesting book but I needed the visual supports – the maps, the photos – of the places he was talking about. What an interesting life he has been having.

New-to-me mystery writer whose protagonist is named Ruth, so of course I like her. Elly Griffith is her pseudonym (her grandmother’s name) and I did like the book: The Crossing Places: A Ruth Galloway Mystery, 2010. Archeology features in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk’s north coast