When Matthew Locke survives a shipwreck on the coast of Anglesey, he is cared for by the family of Llyws Llewellyn in the fishing village of Rhosneigr. During his recovery from the ordeal, he finds himself slipping through boundaries of time, becoming involved in events from Angleseys mysterious past. In these episodes, he meets, in different guises, Bryony, Llwys Llewellyns elder daughter, and it is here that their strange love affair begins. Set in Anglesey in the 1880s, and beginning with the loss of The Norman Court, a clipper in the Java sugar trade, John Wheatleys novel explores the...

Three narratives of love and loss are interwoven in John Wheatley's novel which is set on the isle of Anglesey, Wales. Spanning 350 years, from English Civil War to present day, a ruined mansion provides the link between past and present. Meanwhile, the weeping sands of the title, the Lavan Sands, at the eastern edge of the Menai Strait provides a melancholy background to the novels events. Jenna Shaw, 32, childrens TV presenter, is invited to take par t in a TV show exploring her ancestry, a quest which will take her, ultimately, to the ruined mansion of Baron Hill, in Beaumaris, Anglesey....

Harold Simpson, author and poet, has had one taste of literary fame, and, thanks to the incompetence of his agent, it almost ruined his life. Now, with a folder of poems, he sets off in his twelve year old VW Beetle to take part in a poetry festival in Northumberland. Here he meets the precocious and enchanting Lynnette and the beautiful Veronica Kay. In a line-up with some of the most famous poets of the day, Harry steps onto the stage and his performance turns out to be the last thing anyone expected, least of all himself...