Islands, with their closed communities, their remoteness, their uniqueness, have a special place in an author’s heart. Sometimes they bec...

  This novel is pleasurable on so many levels that it's going to take me a while to list them all, and to do so without any spoile...

Of course I should have brought binoculars.   Vast though it was - this panoramic wooden sculpture of London’s mid-seventeenth-century skyl...

Thirty years ago a new university friend invited me to come and spend Christmas with her family in Hiroshima.  Until I met her, Hiroshima ...