It is around three hundred miles from where Alvin Straight lives in Laurens, Iowa, to where his brother Lyle stays outside Mount Zion, Wisconsin; once close friends, following
There is never a good time for a political crisis, but for United States Senator Nick Rast it could not be more inconvenient, an accident while scuba diving
A dealer in antiques and curios, the front of Neal Mottram’s shop is apparently respectable, with Ming vases and brass ornaments whose price tags are as weighty as
The pastoral English village of Howdean consisting of a couple of hundred houses and cottages on the surrounding fields, home to perhaps a thousand people and far from
Her twentieth birthday approaching, Catherine Yorke is leaving the London flat she shares with her boyfriend to spend a week in the country in the company of her
London, 1969, Gary working on hip Carnaby Street opposite where his ex-girlfriend Sylvia works, both of them modelling and selling the latest fashions, their cool swag unable to
“I suppose you know we’re cursed from Hell to Christmas, we Whitmans.” Thus spoke Lord Edward Whitman, nobleman and magistrate of a small hamlet in the late sixteenth
Jessica-Ann living with her girlfriend Josephine, when suffering nightmares she sleeps alone in the guest room, awoken late at night by a terrifying sound and lights descending from
It was an accident near Brunswick, the car carrying four people, scientist Lucas Martino, his associate Doctor Newman, their security guard and their German driver forced off the
There is a promotion coming up at Aberdarcy Library, and both John Williams Lewis and his friend Ieuan Jenkins are after it, John’s wife Jean pointing out that
