Marcus Feld

Waves rolled up the pebble beach at sunrise while two gulls barely moved.

Small hotels and guesthouses around Greyling Bay report a rise in out-of-season bookings after joining forces to sell guided walks, cookery sessions and harbour suppers as short-break packages.

Hartshorn Timber has invested in a press that glues layers of local spruce into large structural panels, and has won its first order for a six-storey housing scheme.

Volunteers at Fenwick Point are among more than 200 sites counting and ringing migrating birds this autumn, building a picture of the journeys made by waders and songbirds.

From Paris to Dublin, Melbourne to Adelaide, the architecture of reading rooms.