To Calais, In Ordinary Time - James Meek

To Calais, In Ordinary Time - James Meek'Inventive and original' The Times 'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary Mantel Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of

Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows

There's so much breathtaking excitement that the book should come with an oxygen tank

easy-to-use handbook

As founder of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers

With guidance on choosing period products

before they were eventually recast as symbols of women’s liberation

Southern and Central Jutland

'Fast paced and incredibly compelling' Shari Lapena

The Borrowers Afield: The Clock family escape to the fields where their cousins live

to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels

the author of much-loved family favourite Giraffes Can't Dance

And when a murderer strikes