Adrift In CaledoniaOne clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea. It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland's canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland. Writing with characteristic humour and candour, the

celebratory and powerful in equal measure

Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a space station

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Very young children will love this chunky board book full of adorable animals and the different noises they make

and a successful life she never imagined

If you want to be the best you have to have the right skillset

and he began birdwatching in the books that he read

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a process you can easily use in your own work

Orla Kiely has opened her archives to explore a life dedicated to print