The Ghost Lake, Wendy Pratt

The Ghost Lake, Wendy PrattNew Hardback The Ghost Lake is a deeply personal, lyrical and stirring meditation on local history and changing landscapes that intertwines nature writing with an exploration of grief, belonging and the lives and legacies of rural working class people. I am setting out on a pilgrimage through an ancient landscape. I will begin at my daughters grave. Paleolake Flixton is an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. Human occupation of the site dates back

but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms

these pages offer a good dose of inspiration

and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love

and it isn’t hard to figure out why

Colonels and Commanding Officers and of those who commanded other units and formations

With 100 recipes

the intelligence of supposedly 'bird-brained' hens

the allies launched their first

Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres

made entirely from hand-pressed plants

building little wooden huts that will protect the ducks come spring

Discover local history and points of interest with routes that feature prehistoric settlements