"A bridge collapses in Peru and five people die. This beautiful short novel tells the tale of how each one came cross the bridge on that day and meet their destiny."
"How a stroke victim with locked-in syndrome learns to communicate letter by letter by blinking his eye. No self pity just plenty of patience and black humour."
"18th century gentleman traveller departs Scotland to find out which way the Niger flows. Romantic ideals turn to gruelling reality in this ultimately doomed mission.."
"An insanely wreckless journey in a balsa wood raft across the Pacific in order to bolster the author's anthropological theories. There is a palpable sense of vunerability on the sea."
