Guardian of the dawnAt once passionate, furious and hopeful, Guardian of the Dawn is both a saga of horrifying religious persecution and a riveting, tendermulticultural love story.

the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it

It features three sections: South Wales

For isn't it true that we all hope to be remembered

It found an unlikely new magpie-father in Charlie

the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List

With her unparalleled horticultural experience

The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace'

dizzying change

From Elizabeth Hay

Two typists - the charming

The 'ghetto girls' paid off Gestapo guards

From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks