The raven's nestIn 2008, on a week long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the strange landscape she found herself in, a place whose midwinter full moon is brighter than daylight, where fierce storms shake iron clad houses and northern lights pattern the night sky, where the meaning of the word for yes is imbued with ambiguity when spoken on an inbreath. A place in which, and with which, it is possible to think differently. An

the farthest East I'd been was Torremolinos

the author describes how cases unfold and illustrates exactly what it's like to be a murder trial judge and a witness to human good and bad

Some people when they reach the end of a long

which span super-greens to indulgent chillis

and a secretly troubled teenage daughter

Discover the joys of slow travel

but her struggles are only just beginning

First you unlock its secrets

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do

including Maigret

in the aftermath

And - most importantly - how do we get it back