Rhyme and ReasonSome people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment and this is a book about those people. What was it like to be sent a Tudor love sonnet? And how did you reply? What did people think of Wordsworth or Chaucer before they were put on pedestals? What

It is an immersion in painting

the two are led down a dangerous trail of espionage

heartwarming' Zara Stoneley

The hero is 15 year old mute

As they recount the rejection

The monks believe this is the start of an ancient prophecy heralding the end of days - the Great Silence

a hill that never ends and the smallest hill in England

Then one evening

'Overleaf' is an extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree

great carpets follow power

Gossip turns against her and as prejudice and suspicion breed

the early 1990s promised a 'kinder