An Englishwoman abroad, Jessica Barrett already has her hands full with two young children underfoot, precocious Ken and Gail, living in San Francisco and finding she is expecting

Best friends from school, it seems like no time has passed for Esta and Jeanie, arranging to meet on the old lane by the fields, a country walk

Joy Wilkes is on a schedule, her ovulation calendar dictating when her dutiful and somewhat resigned husband Harry is to attend to her needs, yet pregnancy has apparently

From Monty Python to Douglas Adams and beyond, there is a long-running and particularly British strand of comedy concerning the inherent exasperation of dealing with bureaucracy and its

It was a crime with no apparent motive and scant evidence, making it difficult for the police to progress any thorough investigation, Professor Cantrell, a well-liked lecturer in

There’s a buzz in San Francisco on the night of Thursday 21st November 1963, “the four bees” arriving in the city for twenty-four hours leave before departing for

It was perhaps something she should have anticipated, private investigator Aline Ruby and her partner Carlos Rivera arriving home via Rocosmos flight ME187, the Mars Express, in their

A weary man crosses the desert on horseback, pausing in his search to scan the horizon and give his equally weary steed a moment of recovery; in the

It is the farthest continuously manned outpost of humanity, the International Space Station, launched in November 1998 and orbiting around four hundred kilometres above the surface of the

A native of Glens Falls, New York, it is Duane Bradley’s first trip to the big city, an apparently innocent young man but one who is focused on