Famous Last Words
by Dave Paine
When gang leader Brent is seriously wounded on a job that goes wrong, his thoughts go to making sure there is a record of his final utterances for posterity. The woman in his life, Vicky, tries to save him, while his experienced sidekick, George weighs up taking over all of Brent’s operations! Can the gang protect their boss when armed gangsters from a rival outfit arrive to finish him off? Will his gormless bodyguard, Nevis, be ready and able to note down Brent’s Famous Last Words?
Mingulay
by Iain Prest
Sarah is alone on the island of Mingulay. Entirely alone. And yet she hears an impossible knocking on the front door.
Eventually her husband, Michael, joins her and brings with him the past that Sarah has tried so hard to escape. Sarah seeks inspiration and Michael the chance to rebuild their life.
But the hope for peace and inspiration never materialises. As the pressure of the past bears down on the couple, the fissures in their relationship deepen and threaten to tear them apart.
And Sarah keeps hearing the knocking…
Vintage
by Lucy Kaufan
David and Jenny are a married couple visiting a psychotherapist for relationship counselling. Their love of all things nineteen-forties, the lifestyle, the music, the fashion, has grown into an obsession, and they are stuck permanently in 1942. David, not so keen on therapy, is beginning to question their choices and trying to break free from his shackles. Constrained by rules of their own making, they use the session to try to move forward in time. But is it time that has stood still or their relationship?