WanderersThis is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. 'Wanderers' traces their footsteps, from eighteenth century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England to modern walker writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was

this beautiful and ground-breaking book arranges Shakespeare's sonnets printed in 1609 in chronological order and intersperses the sonnets from the plays among them

he sets out his own theory

an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich

Sophie's grandfather whose final act is to send a postal vote for the European referendum

When a number of scientists mysteriously disappear in Berlin

but the very institutions of American democracy itself

It is the same every year

But just when she feels they might have a chance of happiness at last

For Molly Martin

It is a luminous account of the human spirit's instinctive connection to nature

'The wisest book I've read for many years

and the kicks and confusion of adolescence