Still Water by John Lewis-Stempel

Still Water by John Lewis-StempelThe Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly. From amorous toads to the eye popping mating habits of water boatmen, a magical celebration of pond life by one of our finest, most evocative nature writers.' Daily MailPonds: small bodies of

in Iraq and the West

That woman is Faye

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer

in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs

The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth

A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself

twenty-five years

sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city

she must confront what she has lost and what she will become

In these pages

this is a landmark book' Fintan O'Toole

they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son