The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, 1824-1826These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller and lesbian. She kept extensive diaries, written partly in code, of her life and loves.

on the battlefields of El Alamein and Alam el Halfa

A PUZZLE THE SHAPE OF A DOG - and as long as a dog at more than a metre long

and fillers

a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor

and Pei Hsuan

cut into three

In September 2006

spirituality

but looked as if it would give to the touch

Yet before the year ended three returned

Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century

This extensive new research volume on the architectural