For Life by Ailsa Piper

For Life by Ailsa PiperAfter I swim, I watch an osprey hanging in mid air. If those who came before really do dissolve and dissipate, and if their cells really are all around us, then that bird is held there by Mum and Peter and billions of others of the long dead. The osprey is kept aloft by absences. Perhaps I am too. When her husband doesn't answer his phone, Ailsa Piper knows something is wrong. She calls their neighbour, and minutes later, he rings back. 'Oh, Ailsa.

and endless rules that make no sense

there's no challenge Jack can't figure out

piecing together clues that not only bring them to the attention of a criminal organisation

The book outlines a national monitoring technique for rare arid zone species based on a repeatable

including a lion

It's been blamed for climate change

and he has since published nine books of poems

Equally alive to the sacred and the profane

Paul has worked

Unless you count Falada

yet humane and apparently untouched by anger

from legendary author Bill Bryson