'I read every page obsessively… sharp and witty and so delicately crafted' Elvin Mensah
lively new literary biography
Each poem has a vivid story to tell - of family quirks
Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship
Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th-century philosophy of Optimism
Ocean People & places (Children's / Teenage) 'I read every page obsessively…Informed by the author's extensive travels in and around the Atlantic Ocean, crossing Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Sea of Darkness and the weed covered Sargasso Sea to make landfall at locations as diverse as Vinland, Greenland, the Faroes and the Cape Verde Islands, and populated by a heterogeneous and multi ethnic cast of seafarers, fishermen, monks, merchants and dreamers, 'Ocean' is an in depth history of a neglected subject, fusing geology,