Emma Donoghue - Astray (Pan Macmillan)

Astray is a sequence of fourteen stories, all with fascinating characters, who are emigrants, runaways, drifters - they cross the borders of race, law, sex and sanity. They have all gone astray. These strange, true tales light up four centuries of wanderings, offering a past made up of deviations, and a surprising and moving history for restless times.