When the cranes fly southBo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left; his body is failing him and his quiet existence is only broken up by the daily visits from his home care team. His hands soon too weak to open the precious jar housing the scarf of his Alzheimer stricken wife Frederika, which still bears her scent. Fortunately he still has his beloved dog Sixten for company, only now his son insists upon taking the dog away. The very same son

Graham conveys the full range of experience: to convey the flavour and atmosphere of workplaces in all their character: the jollities as well as the drudgeries

And he needs to talk to his wife

Her mum wants to find it for her

A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist

Inspired by the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades

Two United goals inside two minutes changed it in 1999

Qisma is afraid - afraid for her son

Nina Power unlocks the secrets hidden in our culture to enable men and women to practice playfulness and forgiveness

And the political fallout continues

Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic

insight and wry humour

A grieving political dissident seeks release from his torment