Lucy and Pippa are divorced in their forties. They are sure life must have more excitement than the lives theyve settled for. They decide that a visit to Venice at Carnival time might just bring them some magic, especially if they get tickets to one of the very exclusive balls available. From her first chance meeting with an agreeable stranger who looks strangely famiiar to the odd but exciting events of the ball they enter a chain of events that will change them forever. They will find magic but not as they could ever have imagined it. Lucy realises from the moment in her first day that she...

Not so much a travel book as a manual on the underrated art of blundering abroad. This is written by one of the greatest exponents of the art. Few people have blundered around as adventurously and entertainingly Hopeless at reading maps but deals with bouncing desserts in the USSR. No sense of direction but finds how to be immortal from the knees down in ancient Greece. Blundering about some of the worlds most magical places can pay dividends. In a world where even taxi drivers dont know how to drive out of Havana he finds the magnificent area built by the Mafia and then the six lane highway...

An attractive journalist is found dead in a flat in Malaga. A powerful French politician is arrested in London for attempted sexual assault. A brilliant Ukrainian chess master inexplicably loses an important match in the sunshine of Portugal. A respected Spanish priest falls from grace and hints at murder. What dark forces of modern European politics lie behind these apparently unconnected events? The legendary Chief Inspector Miguel Rojas of the Spanish National Guard begins to see strange, unexpected connections. The powerful French politician is dangerous. The journalist in Malaga...

The Savannah Zombie is the first of three stories set around the notorious Bermuda Triangle. I walked through Savannah, Americas most haunted city at night, through the squares with the hanging, tangled branches of trees reaching out from the parks. I knew of its strange reputation and things can happen. Its subtitle is My Night with Scarlett and I was, after all, in Gone with the Wind country. How true that turned out to be.....if, of course, anything is really true. Bermudas Other Triangle asks how something that cannot be real can be the most real thing to have happened to you. In Bermuda...

Millions know the Portugal of sunshine, beaches, excellent dining and people of unique charm. Look a little further and you find a history dating back to Biblical times, a country already sophisticated when the Romans invaded. Its natural beauty and fertility, its inviting climate and its Atlantic coast attracted tradesmen and settlers from the earliest times. Only now are some of its earliest treasures being discovered. Only recently has it been realised that the lost city of Atlantis, thought to have been a strange fantasy of Platos probably had a very real origin just where he said by the...