The ship asunderIf Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in fragments across the country's creeks and coastlines. This book collects those fragments for a profound and

A few obvious lessons include: megalomaniac men with moustaches in charge of countries tend to turn out to be bad

the list of suspects is depressingly long

he had just mourned the death of his father

billionaires

the Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre

recently fledged and perching happily on the hat of one of the biologists that had just ringed it

Young and in love

This book is a history of the war

After the disastrous failure of D-Day

From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO

Who knows what they will discover next

'In January 2020