Is a River Alive?From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective shifting new book which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Is a River Alive? takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent

When rich and imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London

an experienced journalist from a family of journalists

The Meeting

Aware of Thomas's background as a mathematician and his expertise in codesand ciphers

Three centuries later

the de Witt's youngest daughter

but it might as well be a different world

And although Kaiju are their universes largest and most dangerous animal

is trying to find out why the tomb of a child in the local cemetery should have been desecrated

Wenzell Brown

grieve the closing of Fabric and write book proposals on the history of salt

When the two armies clash all looks set to be decided