I am, as I’ve said, rereading JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL. I’ve just finished the chapter in which a malicious old rich man has tortured one of his servants by getting him cold and wet and then making him stay up all night while he…

Lost At Sea by Marian Allen It was noon. It was always noon. And never any wind. Captain Jed Kellem stood rigidly at the helm, willing a freshness that never came. The Dancing Noose stayed, ever becalmed, on the glassy sea beneath a blazing sun…