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It will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was.Thousands of years ago, St. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.

In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant.

But for her family, and many others, there was no right side. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town. Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. Thin Places, Kerri ni Dochartaigh, ( pb Jan 2022) £9.99 A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and history: this is Kerri ni Dochartaigh's story of a wild Ireland, an invisible border, an old conflict and the healing power of the natural world'A special, beautiful, many-faceted book' Amy Liptrot' From Shackleton's pursuit of adventure as a young merchant seaman, through his rivalry with Captain Scott, to the two remarkable expeditions to Antarctica that revealed his unrivalled leadership and courage, Fiennes brings the story vividly to life in a book that is part celebration, part vindication and all adventure. That cannot be said of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who has been described as 'our greatest living explorer'. No previous biographer has experienced even a tiny taste of the polar hell on earth endured by Shackleton and his men.

Their survival would become history's most enthralling adventure. Throughout the long, dark Antarctic winter, Shackleton fights for his life and the lives of his men - enduring freezing temperatures, a perilous lifeboat journey through the ice-strewn sea, and a punishing march across the South Georgia glaciers to seek the one slim chance they have of rescue. _In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. Shackleton, Ranulph Fiennes ( paperback June 2022) £10.99 Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand.