House By The LakeIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her 'soul place' as a child, she said a holiday home for her and her family, but much more a sanctuary, a refuge. In the 1930s, she had been forced to leave the house, fleeing to England as the Nazis swept to power. The trip, she said, was a chance to see it one last time, to remember it as it was.

as Lynn Barber put it

A mile-by-mile study of eighth-century Offa's Dyke

but hidden in the pages of the manuscript there lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page

four households gather for a party in the tiny Yorkshire village of Black Gale

South London

being proposed to at 21

Following up on his first book

this is the definitive account of the events that led to the Skripal poisoning

who will become vilified by the US press and protesters

Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to document fading rural traditions and beliefs

Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake

in the hope of finding other survivors