We Are All From Somewhere Else

*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*

''A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and beyond that, empathy'' Independent

Home is where you start from, but where is a swallow''s real home? And what does ''native'' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain?

In ninety richly varied p...