On his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator. For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying,...

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world’s biggest races, from the Olympics to big city marathons, Runner’s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover just what it was that made them so fast – and to...

Russka is the story of the history of the Russian heartland, in Edward Rutherfurd’s proven style. He traces family stories through short stories.

Natural spring bathing in Japan is a celebration, the lovely pause in hectic lives yearning for moments of tranquillity. The hushed intimacy of rooms behind sliding paper doors, the sweet and the tangy of Japanese fruits, vegetables and seafood,...

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden...

‘These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel and cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes and still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they’d...

Lazing through hot summer days at their beach hut, life seems just about perfect for the Vincent family – until their peace is shattered by murder. An incident between Paul Vincent and Stevie Clarke – an unbalanced beachcomber known...

Jim Young is banished to a desolate winter beach to rebuild his smashed feet and legs. His left eye and racing career vanished like the Sandprints of Death left in the sand by the waves with each turn of...

Weezie is illegally previewing a house sale at a run down plantation in the dead of night, she opens a closet and out falls the body of her rival Susan. Weezie is the prime suspect, but her many quirky...