Creation Lake SIGNED, Rachel Kushner

Creation Lake SIGNED, Rachel KushnerNew SIGNED Hardback Seductive and cunning American spy for hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. Sadie casts her cynical eye over this

for its two horns

This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities

Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82

an infertile woman in a fertile world and a bereaved mother in a society focused on children

Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland

his research programme and his previously lost Old English translation of St John's Gospel

Being brave when you feel afraid is the very bravest brave of all

with a little grit

wasps have an unwelcome and undeserved reputation for aggressiveness bordering on vindictive spite

His fiercely argued pacifism was ahead of his time

Colin Anson’s (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism

Encouraging us all to stop