A history of burningIndia, 1898: Pirbhai is thirteen when he steps into a dhow on the vague promise of work his family is suffering and he will do anything to help. Forced to labour for the British on the East Africa Railway, he has no money, no voice, no power. Sonal is fierce and loving, always willing to fight for what she believes in. When Pirbhai, weathered from his time on the railway but not broken, walks into her father's shop, she knows he is part of her future,

surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate

such as fossil fish teeth

distribution maps and life history charts

enlarges our view of Homer

in England

be they modest or monumental

to crown a new king

From the swallowtail prow of a Bronze Age vessel to a stone ship moored at a Baroque quayside

'A Line Above the Sky' melds memoir and nature writing to ask why humans are drawn to danger

The collection of vagabonds and strays in the basement will have to find somewhere else to live

with close to 3 million followers

as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath