Andrew Daws: 6 books

A young student student of art history, Andrew Ashton, makes a long trek to a Greek island to visit Ben Burgess, son of famous artist Royston Burgess, a painter of vast, mysterious canvases that sell for millions now, in the hope that he will interview him and complete his university thesis. But he...

Oliver visits Brighton Beach one hot summer's day, and while swimming, meets Martin, a handsome man his age. They get on in the water, and out of it, until Oliver begins to hope for more. As summer ends and they meet during autumn, Oliver realises Martin is troubled and unable to respond to him. And...

Voyages is a comedy of manners set on board a liner. Miles, a seasoned traveller, once again sets sail across the Atlantic, to be intrigued by his fellow passengers, not least an elegant, mysterious Countess recovering from illness, and a morose poet she is taking back to America with her after an...

On a boat off the coast of Devon, a boy waits with his father’s new wife as all the men, friends on one of their diving holidays, all descend to the depths. Rachel is uneasy, and the boy is bored, but as Rachel begins to talk, she reveals something of her relationship with the boy's father, how...

What is true and what is false, what is love, and how we come to terms with loss - this beautiful, tender, and often funny collection of short stories about the sea tries to answer some of those questions. August Blue, a fiction based on a real painting, describes Charlie's adventures with...

August Blue, based on a real painting, is a fiction in which Charlie, one of a group of small boys, steal a boat to go swimming out in the harbour one hot summers day. Years later, he is remembering what happened to him to his daughter, who is delighted to have seen the picture at last. But then she...