Till the Cows Come Home: A Lancashire ChildhoodThe youngest of five siblings, Sara Cox grew up on her father's cattle farm surrounded by dogs, cows, horses, fields and 'lots of cack'. The lanky kid sister half girl, half forehead a nuisance to the older kids, the farm was her very own dangerous adventure playground, 'a Bolton version of Narnia'. Her writing conjures up a time of wagon rides and haymaking and agricultural shows, alongside chain smoking pensioners, cabaret nights at the Conservative

they have already crossed the border

via Devon and Cornwall

loneliness and violence - set against a grim landscape of sink estates

Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp

How can she protect her two younger sons from the same fate

Notre Dame Cathedral

She decides which of her colleagues rush into a burning building and how they confront the blaze

ancient witchcraft to Harry's Hogwarts - packed with unseen sketches and manuscript pages from J

It is a hymn to the sustaining power of women's friendship

Andy Warhol

The often hilarious

and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis