Notes from Deep TimeFrom the secret fossils of London to the 3 billion year old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state of the art Californian laboratories to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth's life story is written into the landscape. Helen Gordon turns a novelist's eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together

all she can do is entrust her fate to the legendary and mysterious Abigail

as well as exchanges and intimate moments with her father

With recipes that leap to life from the page

Europe is an astonishingly successful place

A novelist

styling and recreating the city as reality and dream

through two world wars

with each entry perfectly attuned to the season

Why has someone buried tattered scrolls by obscure philosophers - and does it involve a worse crime than terrible writing

After walking 630 miles homeless along the Salt Path

Driving home one night

twins Ash and Xeno