Hannah Jackson had no idea she wanted to work on a farm until a life-changing family visit to the Lake District in her late teens
deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war
Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child to whom he can pass on his elite genes
Based on the popular science-backed challenge to eat 30 different plant foods per week
but the shock of the truth is profound when she looks back
Venus, Vanishing - Rebecca Birrell Genre:Historical fiction Hannah Jackson had no ideaBlisteringly passionate, Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell is a page turning debut novel of desire, art, and the stories lost to the darkness of history. 'Gripping, gorgeously written . . . I couldn't put it down' Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre'This vivid novel of 1930s Berlin asks what it means to make art in an emergency' Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam WoodBerlin, 1928. Hannah is new to the pleasures and freedoms of the city. She