Super-InfiniteSometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen year old girl without her father's consent;

Eliza Acton

'Dolphin Junction' displays Herron's craft for deftly plotted storytelling

From scholars to imposters the dozen or so antiquaries at the heart of this book show us history in the making

Forget prescriptive 28-day plans and fad diets that are sooner or later abandoned

as people and as writers

it is more relevant than ever

Covering everything from gooey cookies and celebration cakes with a dreamy drip finish

Her wanderings reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war

A grand monument to communism sits forgotten atop a mountain

while Dostoyevsky

It ends with the hunted becoming the hunters - a group of men intent on seeking out the Nazis responsible for their brethren's deaths

And it may also bring him his big chance: he has been noticed by a coach taking a youth team to the United States