A History of the World in 47 Borders : The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge

A History of the World in 47 Borders : The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the

and new approaches to navigation

But will all his efforts to create a beautiful display be enough to win over Nanette

When Elsa's dull but dedicated boyfriend proposes in a packed restaurant

or she will lose him forever

From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris

from Halloween treat bags in autumn to a Christmas wreath in winter and everything in-between

but Rory and the rest of the team can't help thinking about each of their parents

terrible secret

which growers to look for and why

experiences a seizure

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns caters to all-new conditions while drilling further down into the universals: this time

where secretive networks conspire with Africa's kleptocrats to bleed the continent dry