Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations, Margaret Joan AnsteeA fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex. With the support of her parents and through her own determination, she graduated from Cambridge with first class honours, and entered the Foreign Office where she worked with the spy Donald Maclean shortly before

ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions

Steve DeKrey

an omnivore who's looking to incorporate more vegetables in your life

contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth

and comes to know the village's history

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2021

Each person’s approach will be different

a darkly funny novel about a theatre professor suffering chronic pain who

She lands in London

are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello

the novice

taking us inside the world of the newcomers