June 1st is bustin’ out all over, and I’m back at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in beautiful County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, having first visited here over seven years ago. I’m attempting to catch up on several months’ (years’) worth of creative moodling, paddling a meandering course back to a very soggy, tatty page. And finally I’ve found time to post the complete list of 28 spring book suggestions I shared on Instagram. No matter if your taste has dissolved into delicious summer, you can read these whenever. Great literature is season-less. For more details on each book, visit my instagram: @stampanorak

1. The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
2. Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. To Die in Spring by Ralph Rothmann
5. A Room with A View by EM Forster
6. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
7. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff 
8. Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
9. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
10. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
11. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
12. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
13. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
14. The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
15. A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
16. The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
17. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago 
18. Mr. Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers
19. The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard
20. The Poetry of William Wordsworth
21. The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone by Tennessee Williams
22. Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
23. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
24. Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
25. Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott
26. The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
27. The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell
28. Spring by Ali Smith