Lone Wolf : A Journey Into the Wild Heart of the Alps - Adam Weymouth FictionSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTIONBBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekA Financial Times Book of the Year 2025A Times and Telegraph Best Book of the Summer 2026`AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland`A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTING JOURNEY.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding`LOVELY FULL OF INCIDENT, COLOUR AND NUGGETY FACTS.' Robbie Millen, The TimesFrom the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Lara Maiklem has been scouring the banks of the tidal Thames looking for objects - lost or discarded - that tell forgotten stories
The results are exhilarating
the sense of wrongness building in chilling
Astrid feels judged and threatened by Penelope
or even a pouch
beautiful outdoor spaces are within everyone's reach
Despite the passion that burns hot between them
or work out which day of the week you were born on
but she still doubts she can ever hold a candle to her best friend
to Sata in the extreme south
the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe
and as fundamental to women's lives