Cornerstones

Series in which five different writers reflect on how a favoured location is determined by its underlying geology

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A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.
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Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.
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Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.
Quartz: King of pebbles
The writer Linda Cracknell explores the enduring appeal of quartz's luminosity.