One Day I Shall Astonish the WorldSusan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right

It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced

We spend our childhoods wanting to a be adults and

with all the poems also read by Michael

to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick

he's beaten to it

and unprecedented access to staff and facilities

and teachers understand that wellbeing is an inside job

makes her nervous - as does her brother

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the 'Little Ice Age'

from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves

But times change

these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history