First out, Nicholas Shakespeare and his sons walk their local beach in Tasmania, a spit of white sand, which offers up stories about sea creatures and ships in distress..
This time, novelist Nicola Barker negotiates the slopes of her back garden at 5am, winter-time. It's a mini-walk, full of massive muddy challenges and includes vigil of her 'benighted goldfish'..
This time, novelist Kamila Shamsie observes the wonderful light at a time called 'dusk-dawn', first from the ice of the Antarctic, then from the deck of her ship. Funnily enough, the experience makes her think of a Greek Island..
This time, the novelist Ian Sansom starts out, using as inspiration ideas of Benjamin Franklin and his faith in 'powerful goodness'. Powerful goodness will power him along, towards the sea at the edge of his town..
Finally, the biographer Lucy Hughes Hallett, strolling amongst headstones in a local cemetery. Accompanying her, a hairy pointer called Kilburn, who has his own reasons for trotting out early..