Collected together for the first time, Ian Gouge's three novellas: Losing Moby Dick, Writing to Gisella, and Riding the Escalators.LOSING MOBY DICKBooks are, for many people, precious things. They become host not only to the words within them, but to individual history and memory, thoughts and feelings. So when Jack finds he has lost his old copy of ?Moby Dick? he is suddenly knocked off-balance. He knows that it should not really matter that much - but it had ?associations??So Jack determines to replace it - and not with a pristine copy, but if he can, with an old second-hand volume from the very bookshop at which he acquired his original.A simple enough proposition you might think. But then Jack discovers that in the intervening years many things have changed, and Twerton?s bookshop is not what it was. It is much, much different?WRITING TO GISELLA?In many ways it was the perfect, idyllic summer break: unexpected, taken on impulse, filled with sun, culture, and the beauty of Tuscany. And it was also filled with love; the kind of love that changes a young man?s life forever.And then, suddenly, the dream is k