Understorey : A Year Among Weeds by Anna Chapman Parker

Understorey : A Year Among Weeds by Anna Chapman ParkerIn Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous and accessible plants. In gardens, on verges or clustered around municipal lampposts, weeds offer a year round spectacle of wildlife. The benefits to us of being among greenery are well known, but what exactly are these vaguely familiar shapes that accompany our every step, yet pass

Moving and unputdownable

' Douglas StuartIt is 1985

But now Dad comes on Sundays

to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails (early 1990s)

Wings takes readers on a fact-packed flight over a fascinating subject

When Michael and Clare were putting together All Around the Year

How to Stay Sane is at once a brilliant explanation of our minds and a profoundly useful guide to facing up to the many challenges life throws our way

moving read’ – Cecelia Ahern

seaweeds and other algae

Here's what early readers are saying about The Herd:

this novel is one that will never be forgotten by a reader

In the land of Draconis