My Grandmother's Glass Eye'My Grandmother's Glass Eye' deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over promoted. Here,

drunks and prostitutes

Now you'll be able to look up dish or style of cooking and find three recommendations - and if the shop doesn't have what you want

Diana Dark's firsthand experience of Syria's many diverse communities explains why Syria was always a special case and why the Assad regime was never likely to collapse

Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage

To work at the Bar is to enter a world shrouded by strange clothing

art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about

In this memoir written at the age of 33

of tales told around the local innkeeper's table of marauding spirits

Rome and on Elba

and without her guidance

'Wildlife Gardening' is a useful and easy-to-follow gardening guide with a strong focus on the different types of wildlife you can attract to your garden

And just how far will she go to protect them