MY BOOKS

Melinda Williams is a writer and a sustainable design expert, whose debut book is Eco Home (Penguin Random House).

My favourite book ever is…

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. He writes stories set on the southwest border of the United States that are dark, bloodthirsty, poetic and riddled with words you need to look up in a dictionary. The Crossing is about brotherly love, wanderings, the taming of a wolf and repeated betrayals. It’s moving, melancholy, drily funny at times and deeply philosophical. It’s not in the least cheerful, but it will stay with you for a long time.

My book of the moment is…

Raptor: A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart, about the history of 15 British birds of prey. It’s full of fascinating tales, rich in precise and lovely details, and a poignant reminder of how much has been lost to hunting.