ElderfloraHistorian Jared Farmer tells the globe spanning story of humanity's deep fascination with the oldest living trees, the lessons in survival they offer us, and how to alter our behaviour so that the young trees of today can become ancient themselves.

The Chief asks him to join two investigators - Arthur Martin and Peter Wright - who are determined to clean out the stables

and how that ten-year quest almost destroyed him

telling of real-life jealousy

teachers who want a multi-faceted

a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done

cancers and a multitude of life-altering diseases years after the disaster

A brilliant thriller from C

And their ambition reaches further still

The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries

I doubt I'll read a better book this year' - Chris Whitaker

Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry

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