The Heart of Travel: A collection of short stories

This book is a masterclass on storytelling. Artful descriptions and characterisations. Stories that are poignant, sad, joyful and topical, historic, triumphant, mysterious.

Read and share in the happiness of a writer reminiscing, creating madcap characters and embellishing a lifetime of experiences.

From Katy, the coffee-shop owning arbiter of storytelling good-taste in The Best Café on the Bay, to Edmund, the family's saviour in The Black Death: Plagued by Innocence.

Other highlights include:The Heart of Travel where recovering heart-attack victim Howard, enjoys the peace of Acapulco and finds an unexpected love.The gentle Simon's freshly discovered aptitude for multiple slaying in American Jealousy. Tram journeys in Meet me in St Louis, The Bordeaux Tram Driver, The Beauty of Trams (Prague) and where else but Birmingham.As well as a trio of children's stories, some friends of the author also appear:Mike Parker in the WW1 test of friendship The Red Spade.Kathryn Hinton delivers a holiday of a lifetime travel blog in New Zealand.There's no travel in Lindsay Ross's Prada's and Primark's, only Mrs Axelroyd-Hastie, her missing underwear and a sceptical magistrate.