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Helen Scales

British marine biologist, writer and broadcaster; author of Spirals in Time (2015), The Brilliant Abyss (2021) and What the Wild Sea Can Be (2024).

4 books on the record · 8 Jun 2022 – 8 Jun 2022

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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Nation by Terry Pratchett

I’m a big fan of all Pratchett, and for me Nation stands out because it is so oceanic in its topic, in its breadth and in its storytelling.

on fivebooks.com · 8 Jun 2022 · Report

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Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

Skin of the Sea ties into all sorts of mythologies, primarily the West African mythology of Mami Wata.

on fivebooks.com · 8 Jun 2022 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.