"I had a very strange dream about the sea coming right up to our house, so that the garden turned into a beach. Wouldn't it be fantastic - I'd give anything for that." But Athene Groves, and her brother and sister, find it anything but fantastic -...

"See how you enter, your head held high. Your past left behind you, now you're one of a kind. With your gowns and your finery, a vision no less. You are Aphrodite in a blue silk dress." An anthology of poems on life and love, youth and age edited ...

Picture a cave wall filled with images of bison and deer, the earth reds and yellow ochres glowing in the dim light. Now picture Hobby and her grandfather, Ash, standing before the pictures, seeking the help of their ancestors in an hour of crisis...

"Professor Maitland, you attack those who run corrupt regimes, start illegal wars, make millions as they destroy the world economy through reckless gambling. Such people will never play fair." But nor, it seems, will his hosts at the remote mounta...