OUT OF THE WOODS (PB)

This remarkable debut from writer and editor Luke Turner who also co-founded the influential music website The Quietus, turns the nature memoir genre on its head. At a crossroads in his life, the demons he had been battling since childhood were quick to return - depression and guilt surrounding his identity as a bisexual man, experiences of sexual abuse, and the religious upbringing that was the cause of so much confusion. It is among the trees of London's Epping Forest where he sought refuge. Away from a society that struggles to cope with the complexities of masculinity and sexuality, he began to accept the duality that provoked so much unrest in his life - and reconcile the expectations of others with his own way of being.