Every living thingIn the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic, ever changing swirl of complexities. Both

Harriet develops a fascination with the elusive young thief that extends beyond journalistic interest

One autumn evening

the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist

has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die

'Brilliantly written - evocative

Together with Kaitlin

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like peacock's dung and magical mare stones

If anyone has the skills to turn up at a stranger's funeral and claim a bequest they're not entitled to

these poems chronicle his own battle with the darkness and are fuelled with resilience and defiant joy

Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

And he never will be