The author talks openly to the distinguished writer and critic Fiona Maddocks, offering rare insights into the challenges, uncertainties and rewards which have shaped his life and work since childhood
Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railwa
we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, 3 August 1914 When the Lamps Went Out presents a surprising, immediate, sometimes humbling, sometimes u
An award-winning novel from one of Japan's most exciting literary voices: a short, simple and touching story of an unlikely love that blossoms across generations, and between seasons
A profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking
The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, an
