Starlight woodWe think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems and music that are still part of Britain's idea of itself today. But for the Romantics themselves, the countryside was a place where radical change was underway both within and around them. 'Romanticism isn't a cultural artefact; it's a way for thought to move,' writes highly acclaimed biographer and poet Fiona Sampson in this transporting

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the Pennines - the 'backbone of Britain' - called to Anita with a magnetic force

Soviet scientists

now Fortuona

Stranger still

Across town a group of young women are being hunted down

and when - as ever - it's the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams

cold and stormy outside

Leo just wants to enjoy life

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