Lifescapes'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, have not solved the puzzle. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. In 'Lifescapes', acclaimed biographer and obituarist Ann Wroe reflects on a career spent pursuing life: a process, as she sees it, not of chronological narration but of

Camilla Stephens

'Norwegian Wood' delivers a wealth of advice and technical know-how for the armchair reader and for those outdoors

and it isn't long before the inhabitants of the nearby town of Old Ox react with fury at the alliances being formed only a few miles away

Florence Wilkinson takes us on a fascinating journey into why we should engage with our fellow urban species

The board is set

the customs and

warring patriarchs and vicious scions

before he created the Fold

He vanishes

Leto Atreides understands the future

with minimal fuss - all while transporting you to sunnier climes

But the show must go on