Talking in Bed and Other PoemsThe essential pocket edition of this most beloved and quoted of poets. Our almost instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. In lines perfectly constructed and as beautiful as they are plain spoken, Philip Larkin found a way of delineating our most difficult emotions giving them back to us in images and formulations that help us both comprehend and contain ourselves. His is a fine tuning that turns 'true and kind' more truthfully into 'not

Forced to labour for the British on the East Africa Railway

A proper performance to be sung of down the ages

We've been taught that warming would be slow - but

She does not have too few recollections but too many

He left an orchard to the Prisci

dystopian romance - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games

Dolly Alderton - among nearly one hundred others

Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu dives into the chemistry that underpins our everyday existence

Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality

nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it

this is a soaring account

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