Night TrainsIn 'Night Trains', Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a

Why is the world the way it is

In the early days

But it was also an era of false promises and misplaced trust

This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity

consummate foraging experts

what terrible fate awaits those who criticise too easily and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street

journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots

Both women will learn that memories live in our hearts and that sharing secrets can set you free

with a personal story

In this work

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the author turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers