Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great WritersThrough past and present, the country and the city, a unique exploration of the British Isles

unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish

Gerald Durrell

and it is deep

In horse racing greatness is defined by speed

finds her judgement

looking at her art

In later life Jack and Bobby didn't get on and barely spoke but the lives of these very different brothers from the coalfield tells the story of late twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry

' Hazel Gaynor

a journalist who believes he made a mistake back in 1994 and that the real murderer is still out there

It's a delight

A heart-wrenchingly moving first novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years

but this book reverses the process