Life has not been easy for Gabriel Verde, the young man who as a boy thought he might one day be a priest, both his parents dead and

She walks hesitantly, following a map which looks as though it was written by a child, yet Viola knows exactly what she is doing as she approaches Spider

Children can be cruel, picking up on any flaw or deviation, any quirk that marks someone out as different, magnifying it, focusing on it to the exclusion of

Stepping out from the comfort zone of her sofa beneath the wall of dolls in her small flat, Dolly Diggs has paralysing stage fright, dying on her feet

He’s pushy and won’t take no for an answer, but then he never would, Wing Commander Bill Glennan who once upon a time long ago broke the heart

It was a contract of compromise from the outset, a former solar energy enthusiast obliged by the economy to make a deal with the devil and use her

She’s just an ordinary girl who lives in an ordinary if slightly run-down house with her slightly reclusive parents, Sandy just wishing for an ordinary life with an

The snow-capped mountains may resemble Mount Fuji but the majestic view across the plains is not that of Japan, though the train does convey the Japanese Ambassador to

Sterling Pierce had a dream for the future of the planet, that it should live forever, limitless opportunity for achievement, for personal progress unfettered by limitations of time

Dear diary, life in Sherwood, Ohio has become an ongoing parade of cruelty, a socio-economic microcosm of origins humble and privileged and the inevitable destinies out of which