The Brooke family are gathering in their ancestral home to bury Philip: the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember
international selection of 500 more 'real poems for unreal times'
'Victory '45' tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after six surrenders that heralded the Allied victory
where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
It's time to ride on the back of a Chinese dragon
The book of records Needlework & fabric crafts The Brooke family are gatheringLina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Voyagers encyclopedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam, excommunicated for his radical thought; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany