The Honour of RomeAD 59. Fifteen years after Rome's invasion of Britannia, centurion Macro is back. The island is settled now, bustling with commerce. Macro's goal is to help run his mother's Londinium inn, and exploit his land grant. He's prepared for the dismal weather and the barbaric ways of the people. But far worse dangers threaten all his plans. A gang led by an ex legionary rules the city, demanding protection money and terrorising those who won't pay up. The

and the loneliness of having hundreds of friends who we've never met and don't know us

He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man

spanning many of the sport's most passionate heartlands such as New Zealand

A richly magical collection of tales from J

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dragon slayer

Just to reach Europe

Fifteen years after Rome's invasion of Britannia

A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom

Andrew Martin goes out to meet these enthusiasts and find out just what it is about preserved railways which makes people so devoted

setters and scholars

while adult gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell's 'The French Scarecrow' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'The Garden I Have in Mind'