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Looking out from the well-loved local landmark in Oxfordshire known as the Wittenham Clumps, Peter Adamson discovers hidden landscapes - historical, cultural, biographical and scientific - that take us further than the eye can see. A remote and tranquil farmhouse is revealed to be the place where one of the greatest of all war poems was written. A common thistle becomes a memorial to a Northern mill and to the author's father. A 1960s council estate is found to have a history including Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. An innocent hedgerow represents one of England's most bitter conflicts. A local rectory is discovered to have played a critical role in the American Revolution. An anonymous building in the middle-distance houses is getting ready to generate temperatures many times hotter than the sun. And a prim-looking Queen Anne manor house turns out to have been the stage for one of the most celebrated literary affairs of the twentieth century.

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Peter Adamson is the author of two previous novels, Facing out to Sea and The Tuscan Master. His short story 'Sahel' was awarded the Royal Society of Literature V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2013. He founded New Internationalist magazine in the 1970s and subsequently became Senior Adviser to the Executive Director of UNICEF in New York, a position he held for 16 years. He has written and presented numerous BBC TV documentaries. Originally from Leeds, he now lives in Oxfordshire. His novel The Kennedy Moment was published by Myriad in February 2018.

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