Over the Water : Essays on Islands

Over the Water: Essays on Islands is a collection of essays by thirteen writers exploring what draws us to islands, whether as places of retreat, discovery or self-reckoning.

Contributors include Octavia Bright writing on Elba in Tuscany, Megan Nolan rediscovering Manhattan on foot, Noreen Masud travelling to Tasmania in search of platypuses, and K Patrick island-hopping around Scotland.

Ranging from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic and beyond, the collection is a contemplative, richly observed travel companion built around the particular magic and mystique that islands hold for those who visit them.