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Based on material in the 150-year-old archive of Thomas Cook, this work is a voyage through the romantic era of travel, from the mid-Victorian period to the 1950s. There are 40 full-page poster reproductions, and travel memorabilia, from tickets to early tourists' photographs.

Passion and scandal collide at the heart of Scottish politics - Paul McInnes moved to London twenty years ago for work and adventure. When his wife wanted to go back to New Zealand and he didn't, they knew it was over. Forty-three and coming to terms with his single life, it's on a work trip to Edinburgh that he falls in love with Maddie. Together, they get caught up in exposing a financial scandal that will fracture the heart of Scottish politics and ignite Paul's passion for justice. With his slogan of 'new people, new politics', he and Maddie soon become the glamour couple of Scottish politics. Together, they fulfil an ancient prophecy leading the country along the road to a new future.

Through salt-heavy seas navigates the emotional geography of displacement and belonging, weaving together the coastlines of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the mountains of Wales. These poems chart the internal landscapes we carry with us-from black volcanic beaches to Highland corries, from absent parents to unrequited love, from suburban kitchens to ancient standing stones. Moving through seasons and generations, the collection explores how we construct identity when the usual markers have been disrupted or lost. What does it mean to be cut adrift from ancestral knowledge? How do we remain connected to what we love across distance and time? In poems that speak in English, Gaelic, and te reo Māori, the author refuses easy answers, instead mapping the spaces between cultures, between people, between who we were and who we're becoming. Together, these poems suggest that belonging might be less about fixed location than about our capacity to hold multiple places within ourselves. The salt-heavy seas of the title become not barriers but carriers, bearing our stories from shore to shore, generation to generation.