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.

• 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.