Holy Places : How Pilgrimage Changed the World, Kathryn Hurlock

Holy Places : How Pilgrimage Changed the World, Kathryn HurlockNew Paperback 'One simply cannot do justice to Kathryn Hurlock's vivid and remarkably wide ranging page turner' Country LifeThis year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiritual devotion they are also political acts, affirmations of identity and engagements with deep rooted historical narratives. Kathryn Hurlock follows the trail of pilgrimage through

Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain

A patch of grass from a Christmas tree

Roman forts of Birdoswald

Cruise down the Wester Ross shore of Scotland

Piece together the world of Virginia Woolf in this exciting jigsaw inspired by the life and works of the prolific author

How much of the past can ever be true

half-lit hours – are when the ordinary becomes extraordinary

is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle

Jack Thurston

especially when it comes with glass slippers and a power-hungry Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse

George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature

you can head off with hand luggage only