157 ratings | 19 reviews | avg rating:4.19

Nick’s Year In Books

Nick’s 2024 Year in Books

Take a look at Nick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to Nick’s 2024 Year in Books

Nick Thorpe’s Followers (9)

Nick’s Bookshelves

to-read (30)
currently-reading (12)
read (152)
children (10)
menswork (6)
mindbodyspirit (19)
non-fiction (50)
novels (40)
on-writing (5)
parenting (6)
See all bookshelves »

Nick’s Friends (41)

Russell Jones

277 books | 90 friends

H.A. Fowler

410 books | 170 friends

Donald Reid

1,262 books | 239 friends

Cole Moreton

9 books | 256 friends

Cassian Hall

69 books | 39 friends

224 books | 19 friends

Elspeth Murray

1 book | 146 friends

Angela

7 books | 179 friends

More friends…

Nick Thorpe

Goodreads Author

Born

in Kingston-upon-Thames, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.nickthorpe.co.uk/

Twitter

urbanworrier

Genre

Travel, Memoir, Spirituality

Member Since

June 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/nick-t

edit data

Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer and journalist. A contributor to the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Scotsman and BBC Radio 4 among others, he has covered stories ranging from Russian presidential elections to the coca wars of Bolivia, for which he was shortlisted for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

His latest book, Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go (Little Brown, Jun 2011) is the story of his quest to find balance and fulfilment by sampling everything from naturism to monasticism, Buddhism to ballooning. "Pitch-perfect," wrote the Scotsman's reviewer. "Thorpe's epiphany is profound and affecting, and it is the counterpoint of poignancy and comedy that makes this very personal sear ...more

Combine Editions
Nick Thorpe’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 274 ratings · 34 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eight Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island 3.77 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adrift in Caledonia: boat-hitching for the unenlightened 3.65 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Nick is Currently Reading

Nick is currently reading

A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness

by Martin Shaw (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Mar 27, 2017 08:16AM

Nick is currently reading

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 05, 2015 04:43AM

Nick is currently reading

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

by Christian Wiman

bookshelves: currently-reading, mindbodyspirit, non-fiction

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Dec 10, 2014 11:18AM

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Aussie Readers: Winter Challenge - 1st June - 31st August 2016	457	269	Sep 04, 2016 05:43AM
Aussie Readers: Mary G2E's 2016 Challenge - The year in numbers	41	53	Dec 16, 2016 07:37PM
Around the World ...: Easter Island	12	303	Feb 26, 2025 11:48AM