The swimmer Swimming but a good life -

but a good life - all the way to the very end

winged warrior who is there at Nesta's every turn

The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century

the dragon and its slayer are the survivors of an 800-year battle between rural legend and national record

The swimmer Swimming but a good life -Roger Deakin, author of the immortal 'Waterlog' and 'Wildwood,' was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously and sometimes simultaneously maverick ad man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland