Child Ballad AC25 Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed ‘could well have been prime minister’

and embracing diversity

Soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick

Drawing on freshly released archives of foreign services that worked with or against the Holy See

Child Ballad AC25 Roger ScrutonA Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of Northern Scotland, he follows pathways laid down by departed Irish missionaries and by wolves. He maps a rich territory of rivers, trees and mountains. Also present are histories, some evidenced, some no