Anita Mason takes us to a tiny house in the West of Ireland, where she went to escape the world and write.
Duncan Forbes shares his own small and expertly-gardened corner of the planet in 'Yew Tree House'.

Anita Mason takes us to a tiny house in the West of Ireland, where she went to escape the world and write.
Duncan Forbes shares his own small and expertly-gardened corner of the planet in 'Yew Tree House'.
Donny O'Rourke takes us to Edinburgh in August, for a Lughnasadh harvest festival — but one of culture, not of crops.
Tiffany Murray flees the over-familiar, but still creatively disabling, complaints of a despondent writer, by escaping to the strange new world of Iceland and its music.
Karl Whitney recalls the unlovely Central Motorway area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and how he found himself at home there.
Zoë Howe takes us to Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary, low-lying outpost of a cockney diaspora.
Ray French visits Far Ings, a once-busy site returned to nature and a reminder of his father’s values.
Linda Hoy takes us to the Sheffield archive of a most unusual society.
Brian Clegg considers the fate of post-truth science in his post-industrial hometown of Littleborough.