stellanova ) and it has put me in a social history mood. I bought Jenny Uglow's history of gardening on my last trip to Inverness, plus Melvyn Bragg on the history of English, and How I Live Now. And the local SHBS netted E H Sheppard's autobiography and Myddle: a History of an English Village. And I have a Girls Gone By order to come and Christian Miller's Childhood in Scotland. But I need more recommendations - the nights are long and dark up in these parts. So over to you.