Waiting on the wordFor every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, he offers readers a soul food feast for Advent.

at a time when community and industry influenced life in ways which have all but disappeared in the 21st century

Tom Rachman presents a poignant

the Scot refuses to desist

so that the book flows smoothly with the seasons and the emergence of different wildlife

They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet

Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it

A unique appreciation of the hills of Wales

it has been said

She outwits her gruesome parents

Here's the thing: I am scared of flying

obsession and dangerous truths

Centuries before A Game of Thrones