Restoring the WildThe RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK's reintroduction agenda.

Patricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century fiction writers

Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency

disrupting our natural rhythms

she created a culture not just of excellence

a troubled young man

much happier

the commonplace or remarkable things that survive the bodies they once encircled or adorned

Today in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its historical records accessible

Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream

Gretchen Tilbury

Multiple attempts to send Taihaku scions back to Japan ended in failure

Could it be our strength