Books: A ManifestoThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden age detective novels to avant garde

he would not hestitate to take advantage of Britain's weakness and launch a devasting invasion

'Wonderfully observed and brilliantly imagined

an African poet also employed to divert the passengers

Webb has written a legendary reimagining of the Greek age of heroes

"They had not known there would be so much magic

Confined to Angela’s glass-walled house in the Scottish Highlands

It's certainly not just about the shopping

but they don’t

For there an exiled Spanish architect

This is exactly what it will be like' Michael LaPointe

author of Brooklyn

'A perfect page turner and a phenomenal start to a new series' Peter Clines