ShearwaterBeautiful, touching, very personal nature writing from the author of 'Liquid Gold' traces the incredible journey of the Manx shearwater from the highlands of Scotland to the South Atlantic.

By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land

mapping them

and that guy who sang The Macarena

editor of Jane Austen's Letters'Tender and touching

His brother

the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing

A hideous scream pierces the calm of the evening psychotherapy session

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas

it has never been a more fascinating - and complex - subject

she left behind a body of work which had already

'Threads' deals with the meanings of intimacy

its intimacies and its estrangements