Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze [2009] hardback Condition:New in an upper storey bedroom

in an upper storey bedroom as the investigator approaches

Told through a series of letters

Bill Bryson

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent

In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close gives an account of how this area of physics has progressed

Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze [2009] hardback Condition:New in an upper storey bedroomBased on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, "The Quickening Maze" centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum an institution run on reformist principles which would later become known as occupational therapy. At the same time another poet, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby