SaltwashTom Shift & Oliver Keele are pen pals. They were introduced through their cancer clinics. From reading Oliver's letters, Tom has deduced that Oliver is lonely & somewhat nomadic. He appears to live hand to mouth at a series of cheap B&Bs. When Oliver suggests they meet up, Tom agrees. Neither of them have long left. While Saltwash seems an unlikely kind of place for a holiday, he goes with it. The Castle Hotel is one of the few places still open in an

Martin celebrates the intelligence

travelling alone

So at the age of 61

she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever

healing capacity

as well as the life phases

'The Fishermen' is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria

the blossoming of flowers and the ripening of fruit

and the special festive recipes she has gleaned along the way

The second Shardlake novel in C

who is in love with Cassandra

many years