The Discovery of Britain'Robb has found a new format for writing history just as Craig Brown found a fresh way to write biography' Alan Johnson 'Rarely does history feel so beguiling' The Observer 'A treasure house of a book' The Spectator 'Entertaining . . . offers a fresh way of seeing the nation's past' The i Taking you on a time travelling adventure around the 'spindly, sea wracked islands' we call home, The Discovery of Britain is history that's panoramic and intimate,

A heart-stopping epic of grief and hope

I want to stress that Paul's text is not an appendix to mine but an integral part of the book as a whole

The yard opened in 1888 and over the next 34 years built over 250 steam hopper barges

as what begins as an unusual and challenging murder investigation leads them into a direct collision course with the dark forces of jihadist terrorism

What she cannot foresee is that all five daughters will succumb in turn to a terrifying affliction and accuse her of witchcraft - who else to blame than an ugly

Before I knew I loved you asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time

a very funny book' Sunday Times

bittersweet as well as welcoming

or is it somewhere that you have to create for yourself

It shows you how to understand and enjoy the cosmos

she explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives

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