The Cove: A Cornish Haunting, Beth Lynch

The Cove: A Cornish Haunting, Beth LynchNew Hardback For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as she grows older, however, her sense of connection with the place grows deeper and more complicated. This slippery interface of land and sea a site of sheer edges and ledges, peculiar rock formations and eroding, tumbling slate becomes her

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The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman

Democracies are faltering

Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred western and Sherpa climbers

part celebration of the incredible variety of insects

initially without any fighter escort

relieved to not have to pay their London rent for the summer or to have to finally learn to cook

He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world

the way they behave

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Why should I feel now calmer

'Love is a gift