Kittling: Books

  First Line: There has always been the river . People disappear all the time, but when a young nurse goes missing on the riverbank, leaving...

  First Line: Outside, the hillside is buffeted by an unseasonable wind, the brackeny undergrowth shifting and flattening, patternless . For...

  First Line: You can see it, if you like, as a thick sheaf of papers, a breeze flicking curiously through them, each page another account o...

  First Line: It is a long way, as the heron flies, between lights in this part of the countryside .   Inheriting his uncle's property o...