**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024Raw and radical, strange and beguiling -** a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain'Expansive and arresting' Financial Times'S****harp, subtle and very moving' Robert Macfarlane...

The New Yorker's Best Book of 2023"sorrowful, tender...beautiful." – The New York Times Book Review“...arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.” – Financial Times"Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud thinks with places, seeking as...

**Brought to you by Penguin.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONRaw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they containFor readers of W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure**Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed fr...

This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aph...

Muoversi nelle terre pianeggianti, nei luoghi piatti, con orizzonti lontani dove lo sguardo può vagare; camminare dove ogni cosa sembra esposta alla vista per accorgersi che invece, celato lì sotto, si conserva il fluire della Storia e delle storie personali. Noreen Masud, che a sedici anni ha lasciato il Pakistan per l'Inghilterra perché ripudiata dal padre, è mossa dalla necessità di capire e di ritrovarsi, e lo fa attraversando paesaggi che non sono l'idilliaca campagna inglese, ma spaz...