and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen
We call these ‘Everyday Adventures’ – from something tiny like eating an unfamiliar fruit from the market to rereading your favourite book to asking a parent what they were like as a teenager
a staggering array of animals and plants make their homes among us
giving hearty food a counterpoint so that you finish the meal feeling better than you started
Sarah Bayliss is a nutrition expert specializing in metabolic health
Book of Ruins Best of Granta and worked as a tarpaulinBook of Ruins offers a survey not encyclopedic, but substantial of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed