The hidden life of garden birdsDid you know that woodpeckers are capable of learning simple codes? Hooded crows can form connections with humans? A jay's call affects the behaviour of surrounding squirrels? All these fascinating bird activities and more are revealed in this book. Unusual feeding behaviour is just the tip of the iceberg. From territorial conflict and strange relationships with man, to breeding and nesting oddities, this book exposes all the drama behind garden

we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE

A young dancer Ray Cohen arrives from London to compete at the Exhibition Paris

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years

She gives symptom-led advice

if the next few years - indeed the next decade - are not to be even more painful

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the hunger and her own wounds

every single one of them comes with a real wish

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the dark moments we endure - which can be brought about through myriad of ways

now a major Netflix series

As the oldest living inhabitants on the planet