The Map And The ClockCurated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland 'to begin at the beginning', to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order to tell

When the world tells you to be one thing and turning thirty brings with it a loud ticking clock

beauty and passion

From Hannah Kent

lost and - too often - feeling blue

He will explain what happened

overlaid with those of the bon viveur

all designed to help us analyse our personal style of thinking

As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and a host of eminent forebears

all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons

they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head

She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party

Noah Martineau thinks he knows who he is: a successful barrister