Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart crossword and from Pieter de Hooch's

and from Pieter de Hooch's cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael's tragic trees

spellbinding

Five months

Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart crossword and from Pieter de Hooch'sFrom the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of POLITICS ON THE EDGE and co host of THE REST IS POLITICS *Rory Stewart spent nearly a decade as a MP of Britains most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people. Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper,