In 1963, Annoele and her mother take a train to Prague to meet her father and to drive back to London across Eastern Europe. Annoele, who is ten, watches the scenery and recalls other journeys taken with her parents. As their travels continue, the fa...
The novel and 15 short fictions contained in this book are concerned with the enigmas people make of themselves. In settings as diverse as London, Paris, Hollywood, Egypt, and a Victorian harborside tavern, these stories show--with insight and precis...
Penelope Milne, a novelist, uses hats in a succession of shapes, styles, and colors, both to reveal and disguise herself as she works on a novel that becomes the fictional testament to her life of coincidence, dishonesty, and love...
Sent away from home for the first time, Neil Pritchard spends the summer of 1962 with his Aunt Nessie on the Solway Firth. Neil soon becomes involved with Euan Bone, a young Scottish composer. Suddenly, however, Neil is expelled from his Eden - with ...
Eilidh Brogan lives in famous seclusion in the South of France. Forty years ago her young artist husband died just as his career was taking off; and it is only now, in the new millennium, that Colin Brogan is being hailed as a great Scottish artist. ...