Dr Alfred Jones is a fisheries scientist, and works at a civil service office where life isn’t easy – added to which his wife is more interested in the bank balance than him. When he is urged to take...

A collection of more than a dozen short stories inspired by the sea, as the title suggests. Set in a variety of coastal areas from Ireland to New Zealand, the stories are often inspired by real events, both contemporary...

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. He’s a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn’t often he worries about the family. Esch...

The year is 1586. Tom Goodluck, lawyer’s clerk and aspiring playwright, is forced to leave his home in Salisbury when an enemy threatens to expose his affair with the wife of a wealthy merchant. At first his future in...

With her bestseller, Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep, Siba Shakib drew attention to the distressing situation of Afghan women. Taking up this theme again, she now tells a wonderful story of love and courage, and of a...

The Camino de Santiago – the stories behind why people decide to walk this special and unique path, inspired by The Canterbury Tales

Brigit Palmer is thrilled to be on the Greek Island of Santorini. She’s here for her wedding to Hollywood heart-throb Blake Crawford, one of America’s most eligible bachelors. Brigit’s parents have rented a villa, and soon guests will arrive...

The last instalment of Kate Grenville’s trilogy of colonial Australia (The Secret River and The Lieutenant) is both a standalone story and an end to the unfinished saga of the Thornhill family. It offers two discrete reading experiences: those...

Two stories intertwine: the first, that of Sarah, a 10 yr old girl who experiences the horrific round up of Jews in 1942 in Paris: the second, Julia Jarmond researches the history of Sarah and her family.

Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main...