A jaded city commuter and office worker is unexpectedly invited to 'break free' from the herd. His joy is short-lived and he is quickly returned to the treadmill. He will never meet her like again. There will be no repetition - or will there?

It's 'Take Your Father To School Day' and some fathers are better at it than others.

A collection of eight short speculative fictions with a Lake District flavour.

An unexpected twist in the closing frames of an old home movie sends Rose hurtling back to her childhood - a time and a place where no one else's parents were divorcing, and where stepmothers were as exotic as shop-bought cake. Revisiting her memories of glamorous part-time fathers and fortnightly treats, Rose unpicks the unspoken adult acrimony, and the childish confusion: "Each time they were returned to her with their bounty she was tight-lipped and unimpressed, flattening their ebullience to a shapeless guilt, their double bind of love and loyalty teaching them early to suppress their enthusiasm in her company." Dual Carriageway is about parents and children, and how complicated it all is.

During her anniversary holiday in Egypt, Judy decides that one honeymoon is one too many, and it's time for a change.

A French toilet, a jealous husband and two dogs.

Increasingly adrift in life, a man reflects on his relationships with the people closest to him while he ponders a solution to his disquiet.

A young couple are taken on a life-changing journey. A story based on real events.