The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker Zen Buddhism each one irresistible in its

each one irresistible in its own distinctive way

the life cycle of an oak tree

Written for local newspapers when Terry Pratchett was a young lad

Craig decided to return to his birthplace—the Cape of Good Hope—and dive into the great African Sea forest each day

The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker Zen Buddhism each one irresistible in itsThe modern day cry is that the high street is dying. But are our present concerns so different from those of the past? Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose built concrete precincts still standing today. Peeping inside the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear places where curiosities were sold for adults rather than