The last friend on earth

IT had been a long, hard drive. Frances had left early, hoping to get away before the rush hour – only to discover that the rush hour started earlier still. She stopped for a break further south than

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck

THE clamour of seagulls woke Frances. For a moment, she was disorientated. Not so much in place – she knew this bedroom well – as in time. She had the odd feeling that none of the last 30-odd years ha

Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

Living opposite Hitler In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was ...

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D