Stations of the SunFrom May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home, and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. This comprehensive and engaging study covers the whole sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present day.

A beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries

and his struggles and triumphs making such films as 'Platoon'

author of the award-winning Children of Time

Multiple social

Here is Howard Jacobson's funny

for literature

Natalie has concerns

Their home would be a container ship converted into a makeshift carrier

time is running out for the two of them

Coming of age as a writer and comedian during the Sixties and Seventies

He explains how a government so keen to avoid conflict found itself not only championing it but seeking to transform the country to fight it - and how

and is understood by few