Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The Guest -- Hobbies -- Watermarks -- Feet -- The Other City -- Mississippi -- To Carry the One -- The Thread -- Map -- Second-Hand -- The Book of Clues -- Adding Up -- Almonds -- The Frame -- Schoolteacher -- Face Blindness -- Wan Hu's Flying Chair -- 'It's turtles all the way down' -- Exact Change -- At Spring -- Hummingbird -- Inventions -- Common Ground -- Malá Strana -- Wren -- A Butterfly in the British Museum -- Icon -- Fra Angelico -- The Vanishing Hand -- Permanent Collection -- Bird in the Air Pump -- Giacometti's Walking Man -- The Ruined Statue of a Saint -- The Ratio -- Buried Candles -- The Microscope -- Drift -- Tom Paine's Bones -- A Tortoise in the Chelsea Physic Garden -- The Meadow -- Old-Fashioned Things -- Trakl -- The Lost Room -- The Glass Armonica -- The Carnival Tent -- Carrick-a-Rede -- Kingfisher -- Lips -- Rilke -- Fergus -- The Sleepwalker at Sea -- Murmuration -- A Little Night Music -- Recent Acquisitions -- Pancho Villa -- Reading in Bed.