Falling AwakeAlice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality is at the heart of this collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and life's losing struggle with the gravity of nature.

The Cheerleaders is Kara Thomas' brilliantly dark and twisty thriller

The life she cultivates is a long way away from the chaos of her past

a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology

But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl

saving countless lives and astonishing us with their capability

portrait painters

In the Summer of 1940

Don't think I ever will

living like everyone else under lockdown

John Arlott

counter-terrorism and humanitarian heroics

Fortunately this is Germany