Life is a journey, a sum total of the experiences lived. En Voyage is an anthology on the voyage called life. It is a collection of poems, short stories and travel accounts of different life experiences, people, journeys, and places we have come across as we live. The voyage is a myriad of colours, of moments enjoyed, of friends gained or lost, of love, and trust, faith and honesty, of places, and people, of different cultures and varied habitats of real adventures and make-believe tales. This book brings together different personalities to write about their own individual journeys during their life, be it fiction or not, some in verses, while others in prose. Voyage is one of the most desire-able activity of almost every individual. Voyage describes the true passion of the travellers and their travel stories. Happy moments, a romantic trip, divine pilgrimages to holy destinations, experiences with friends, finding soulmates to meeting new strangers, to trips with family and some people lost or gained. Travels which are imprinted to memory, which create moments to be cherished, unforgettable at best, are what this book comprises of.

Voyage en Italie - François-René de Chateaubriand. A translation into English by A. S. Kline. Published with selected illustrations. Chateaubriand's Voyage en Italie, describes his Italian travels in the years 1803-4, during the first of his visits to the country. From France he crossed the Alps to Rome and its environs, from which he subsequently travelled to Naples, where Vesuvius, Baiae, and Pompeii figured amongst the sights he visited. His knowledge of the Classical world informs his wanderings among its ruins, and he enjoys the poetry of the picturesque while reflecting on the grandeur of the past. Rome, for him, represents a meeting of the Classical and Christian worlds, magnificent but in many ways a hollow tribute to human vanity, a theme he will revisit in his later travels to Greece, the Levant and the Holy Land. Naples represents a more picturesque and vibrant Italy. Articulating both cultural quest and voyage for pleasure, Chateaubriand writes of his journey as a 'tourist' rather than a scholar or adventurer, penning the work in the form of letters, derived from his travel notes and designed for his interested friends. Here he mingles personal memories with aesthetic and historical perceptions, against the background in which he is most at home, the European heritage, the works of the great poets, landscape and ruins, allowing him to muse freely on transience, the human voyage, and on beauty, found or created. This and other texts available from Poetry in Translation (www.poetryintranslation.com).

'The English should confine their murders to their own country' is the view held by Parisians when Lady Dorothy Strathy, sister of the Earl of Tain, is discovered stabbed in her hotel room. This opinion is held by none more strongly than Courtrand, the head of the Sûreté, an outrageous snob who regards the case as closed when it is discovered that Lady Strathy's paid companion, Miss Newbolt, was the first on the scene. However, Inspector Gautier is not so easily swayed and comes up with a number of awkward clues which throw doubt on Courtrand's theory, facing in the process the shady underworld of male prostitution and back-street throat-cutting - alongside more personal troubles including the death of his ex-wife - in a case with a startling dénouement.