Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

Lives and how to live them

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

MARIE peered out of the front room window, wondering if people would be on time. And not only that – what if nobody showed? She let the net curtain drop, listening to the kettle whistling in the kitch

A head trip and a nostalgia trip, but above all an endlessly intriguing, page-turning romp