How to build impossible thingsWhen Mark Ellison left high school, no one thought he would go anywhere. A self proclaimed 'serial dropout', Mark spent his young adult years taking work where he found it. Who would have thought that forty years later he would be regarded as a great carpenter, making a living out of building homes for the rich and famous? Full of warmth, wisdom and irreverent humour, this is the story of what carpentry can teach us about the satisfaction and joy that

an oligarch's wife hosts a party on a superyacht moored in the Maldives

read pioneering papers to the Royal Society and was a member of the celebrated Lunar Society of Birmingham

who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five

if only we have the eyes to see it

empowering new story of how the idea of 'the West' was created

Maxwell escaped justice for years

and much more

the moments big and small that make up a long life of love - and what comes after

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But running a hotel

intrigue and romance - the Queen of Historical fiction

and while the shapes and voices of the poems mostly prove this by using intimate and lyric forms