Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn - Tapa blanda

James Pfeiffer lives in a world of ships and fishermen. Against the wishes of his parents, he follows the path of his family out on to the water. In the iron-hulled trawlers which plough the ocean off New England, he learns the truth in stories he had heard as a child; the rumours of killer whales and sharks and ghost ships in the fog. He also learns the truth behind his father's terrible fear of the sea. Paul Watkins writes of the dangers and uncertainties of life at sea from personal experience and with striking immediacy.

Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School, at Eton and at Yale. His novels include Night Over Day Over Night, Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn, In the Blue Light of African Dreams, The Promise of Night, Archangel, The Story of My Disappearance and The Forger. He has also written about his experiences at public school, in Stand Before Your God. He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996, and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA.