North by Seamus Heaney

North by Seamus HeaneyThis edition of Seamus Heaney's seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and in its original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication in 1975. By conjuring aspects of a shared Northern European experience its peculiar landscapes and weathers, its sea faring incursions, the vernaculars of its buried and living peoples Heaney found a way of articulating a vision of Ireland in which the disruptions and violences

400 miles north of the Arctic Circle

fast-growing deciduous tree with a narrow

Can we now reclaim pilgrimage as a secular act

But it’s not just the planet that needs help – there’s her whole family too

Chess is a bit like doing magic

future lord and general gadabout

this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation

'An immensely enjoyable read

wonderfully imagined novel brimming with skulduggery at every turn

While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton

bags and boxes

introduced by Jodi Picoult - who said the book was 'an unmissable addition to your To Be Read pile