Country mattersNeed advice on how to raise a chicken or pluck a pheasant? Wondering how to train your dog, catch a mole or sneak through a field of cows? Perhaps you're after the secret to the fattest pumpkin, the wormiest compost, the classiest snowdrop? Or are you simply in love with our captivating landscapes, keen to unlock the history and culture of our woods and fields, our footpaths and boundaries, our meadows and moors? In this eye opening book, Meg Clothier

from Ancient Greece to the indigenous tribes of Australia

We read of the teachers who encouraged and inspired

And when midlife comes and the supposedly toxic periods have passed women aren't even worthy of being commodified or sexualised

'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'

a homemade loaf or a freshly baked pie

And as Rand falters

but also one of snobbery

and ultimately to the borderless territory of Alzheimer's

However Mohsin had incredible drive and he used education as a way out of his home life and to throw himself into a new kind of life

even as a three-year-old

He calls himself the Beijing Ripper

When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn find a human skeleton behind a wall