MudA jilted lover skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; a woman returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a bereft daughter traces her relationship with her mother as she slowly packs up a house in the aftermath of death. In this brilliant collection of intimate and intense stories Michele Roberts takes us to nineteenth century Venice 1970s England modern day France and beyond. Here too are

Is missing Jamie better after all than no Jamie at all

In a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be found on Earth � from giant tortoises to minuscule snails the size of sesame seeds

The time has come to

What with the intriguing of the sinister traitor Codfix

A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor

science books

Ian Chappell was loved by the Australian public for his no-nonsense approach to captaining his country

they could be bound into a nice book

When another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground

He hired the man on the spot

the festival of Britain

Now his already messy life is about to get more complicated