I was sitting in the corner of one the cavernous rooms at the Japanese embassy in Mayfair, London.
Like a lot of people whose lives come to sticky or ignominious ends, Dick Ellis’s time on Earth was ruined by the butterfly effect.
The digital billboard at the edge of Clarendon Street has had the same ad for as long as I remember
There’s only one thing that could make me agree to dress up like a playboy bunny and parade around half-naked in front of my colleagues and library patrons on a Wednesday night.
Marie-Jeanne’s cradle stood under a broad-canopied olive tree
Josie can feel her husband’s discomfort as they enter the golden glow of the gastropub.
Don was still asleep when Eve left the house with Olly and Tabby the following morning.
The conversation began calmly enough, but it wasn’t long before Luna realised that her daughter was exceptionally tense and had been stewing over her question for some time.
Sunny sat wedged between Halajan and the back door of the old Mercedes convertible, the large pink elephant slumped on her lap as if it were a petulant child.
Deeply disappointed, I stood before the reception desk at the police station wondering what to do next.
The first time I successfully harvested my own carrots, I thought I'd moved up into some new echelon of the gardening world - not least because had taken me five years.
Magpies warbled in the gum trees as we walked up the path to Nana Alicja’s ground-floor flat in the upper-crust Melbourne suburb of Toorak.
