Points north

Written By Unknown on Thursday, August 22, 2013 | 7:47 AM

Everyone knows about Roman roads, walls and viaducts, but what other traces did they leave behind? Charlotte Higgins, whose latest book explores the Roman legacy in 21st-century Britain, scours Edinburgh for answers.

Jenny Uglow's latest biography takes her to the age of steam in pursuit of Sarah Losh, an industrial heiress who built a chapel in the Cumbrian countryside. And we travel to Orkney with Amy Sackville, whose second novel entangles a honeymooning couple in mist and myth out in the Scottish isles.