On the small and remote island of Havergey, a few years from now, a community of survivors from a great human catastrophe has created new lives and a new world in a landscape renewed after millennia of human exploitation.To this strange new land comes a traveller from our own time, bewildered by what he finds.
On the small and remote island of Havergey, a few years from now, a community of survivors from a great human catastrophe has created new lives and a ...
John Burnside, Linda Cracknell, Alan Garner, Tim Dee, Sara Maitland, Esther Woolfson, Alyson Hallett, Paul Evans, Helen
Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite city" to Bath, constructed from honey-coloured limestone- rocks shape the world around us. In Cornerstones, some of Britain's leading landscape and nature writers consider their relationship with the ground beneath their feet. Distinguished by a strong sense of place and close observation, these essays take the reader out into the landscape and convey the tactile heft, grain and rub of the rock, showing how...
Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, fr...
Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years - from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign of belonging.
Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years - from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquis...
