SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A ...
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje ...
Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father ...
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the dest...
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illn...
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. A...
'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an...
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and ab...
In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing...
'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England...
To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she ...
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Cras...