On her way to Yugoslavia in 1960s, Innes Gibson loses her luggage, her patience and her head. She spends the next fortnight trying on a different life as well as another woman's clothes. Reeling from sight to sight, drink to drink, and from man to ma...
Threatened by breast cancer, Welsh-born Sarah Thomas seeks a last vacation in Ulster with two close Catholic friends, the Moores, and a former lover, a Protestant left-wing journalist. Once arrived at the Moores' house in County Down, Sarah finds the...
First published in 1959, this novel is set in the fictional valleys town of Cilhendre at the time of the 1926 miners' strike. August arrives and the village carnival is going ahead. In the heightened carnival atmosphere, more sinister undertones ar...