A Century of Storms

From the wetlands of the Norfolk coast to the sparse wastes of Dungeness, the ship breaking yards of Chittagong to the dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the characters we encounter range from a reluctant explorer lost in a strange land, a disgraced sea captain, a desolate department store Santa Claus, and a night porter with a supernatural gift, all of them at some moment of reckoning.

The author of The Magpie returns with his first compendium of short stories that pursue the ethereal, the wild and the passage of time. Resplendent with Roberts’ delicate, wistful and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these stories take the reader to some astonishing places.