Sleeping on islandsAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. 'Sleeping on Islands' is his clear sighted and open hearted account of a remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home life coloured by tragedy and silence where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion to the excruciations of early public appearances, to the decade he spent as Poet Laureate, asserting and ensuring the central place of poetry in a

'The Story of Wales' explores a country constantly on the move and connected with the wider world

woman and child

Rome had no emperor and limited global influence

before they and their mothers could be exterminated

But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids

Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing

seek true love

it became the most highly decorated Royal Naval unit of the Second World War

as well as his terrific insight and sense of humour

but right here in our own back yards and the more that we encourage it and learn to live with it

It is the story of an uprising

The history of Britain