Understorey: A Year Among Weeds, Anna Chapman Parker

Understorey: A Year Among Weeds, Anna Chapman ParkerNew Paperback In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous and accessible plants. In gardens, on verges or clustered around municipal lampposts, weeds offer a year round spectacle of wildlife. The benefits to us of being among greenery are well known, but what exactly are these vaguely familiar shapes that accompany our every step,

in the defiance of silence

000 flying hours

translated from Japanese

Thirty years on

and Oldham

through popular dramas and novels (The Romance of the Western Chamber

The true story has only recently been reconstructed

as she watches otters play tag across the beach

Her tireless championing of fellow women climbers and her own trailblazing example helped establish female alpinists as serious mountaineers with impressive records on bravery

Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism

Rising-star sommelier Cosmo comes from privilege but is struggling to conceal that his life is in freefall

The Roman empire was like no other