Practice Spawn How to Be a Bad

How to Be a Bad Botanist opens our eyes to the wonders around us

joyful Black people’ so reminiscent of her loved ones

this book teaches us the importance of looking inside ourselves and developing compassion

and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity

Practice Spawn How to Be a BadSix o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student works on an essay about Shakespeare's sonnets. Annabel has a meticulously planned routine for her day work, yoga, meditation, long walks; no apples after meals, no coffee on an empty stomach but finds it repeatedly thrown off course. Despite her efforts, she cannot stop her thoughts slipping