How to fish'How to Fish' describes a spirited approach to the art of fishing that dismisses the modern preoccupation with technique, gadgetry and 'catch rates'. Through evocative accounts of days spent on the riverbank, Chris Yates urges us to deepen our vision and rediscover the essential magic of angling.

The era of the lofty Grand Tour was over

Richard Wingate has been scrutinising them for decades

Emma Mitchell's richly illustrated and evocative nature diary tracks the lives of local flora and fauna around her home and further afield

Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion

determined to find answers to her sister's sudden death at the hands of her husband

she shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it is a mirror

A century later

The girl became an artist and had a daughter

Each chapter is titled with one of these gems - 'Be Kind' or 'Never Pass Up The Opportunity For A Wee' - which Rachel explores in ways that are in turn funny

they make perfect sense

Billy discovers the victim is the 'white' of one of his oldest friends

the poems in this anthology perfectly put into words all the different things we feel in our hearts