The best American sports book of all time

Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm than Joe Liebling

A practical and globe-trotting account of fire making around the world. This elegantly illustrated, cloth bound book conjures the joy of tinder, spark and ember

The natural progression from … candle-filled hygge

A beautifully produced guide to making fire

A fascinating and delightful read for anyone interested in history, indigenous traditions and the natural world.

Exquisitely produced

A tremendous book.

Tremendous insight.

Excellent read.

Hannan has never been afraid to voice his opinions on the game's hierarchy or the structure of RL, and his insight along with a cheeky sense of humour makes Underdogs a compelling read.

[A] remarkable new book… Felicities of phrasing and cadence on every page…each of the six chapters offers something of the taut coherence and closeness of the structure of musical variation.

[A] remarkable new book… A love song to light… Ann Wroe is perfectly equipped to deal with this rich mix.

A unique voice in nonfiction… Six Facets of Light exists in a world of quivering immanence.

She switches from thoughts about an English lane to Coleridge, Thoreau, Samuel Palmer, larks, ragwort and Ravilious’s taste in poetry, in effortless and beguiling succession.

A wide-ranging and imaginative work of non-fiction… Never less than engaging.

Six Facets of Light is dazzlingly original.

Six Facets of Light is a book that is making me look and think more closely, and closer again. In its own way this feels like a hymn of praise, a thanksgiving and a celebration of something replete with mystery… Slowly the shackles of modern scientific thought and progress and theory slip away and I find myself observing light as if I have only just realised it existed. How clever a book has to be to achieve that.

A genre-crossing consideration of what light has meant to writers, painters and lovers of landscape.

Inspiring, beautifully written.

An exquisitely written study of light in the works of various poets and painters.

A wonderful literary meditation… This book is suffused with vivid personal memory and precise, delicate observation of Nature. Wroe’s feeling for landscape is both sensitive and acute; her style is lyrical and precise.

A book for winter.

People of faith talk a great deal about light, and we would do well to learn more about it from Wroe’s quick-eyed love of it.

Wroe passes her elusive subject, light itself, through the prism of her dazzlingly well-read mind, and the resulting rainbows fairly dance across the page… An utterly original book that will leave you, in every sense of the word, enlightened.

Ann Wroe’s Six Facets of Light is a fascinating and original meditation [on light]. Six Facets of Light is an exquisite collage of relations, a prose poem to “what escaped” absolutely everyone – and to how madly, brilliantly, they tried to “be in step”.