The Seaweed Collector's Handbook : From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn

The Seaweed Collector's Handbook : From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek ZwambornSeaweed is so familiar and yet its names pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack are largely unknown to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. Seaweed troubled Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic, intrigued von Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea and inspired

From 'weeds' in the pavement cracks and surprising inhabitants of vacant lots

and she doesn't even have money for cigarettes

She is a genius' Sali Hughes'Irresistible

Power writes with a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling

His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction

Tim Pat Coogan

When a tornado strikes the Kansas prairie

she wonders if the miniaturist has returned for her

considering how these fictions favoured a broader cultural and political awareness of the oppression and silencing of lesbian and gay people over the last decades in Ireland

and bathe in the glow of the Moon

'One of the greatest achievements in comedy

more fellow-feeling than derision