Peter Spafford's 'I was a Stranger' traces the fortunes of Alamayou, the reluctant young heir to the Abyssinian throne, from his boyhood in Ethiopia and India to his untimely death from pneumonia in Far Headingley.

Stuart Fortey's 'Duffers' is set by Arthur Ransome's beloved River Crake and explores the tensions between the children's writer, his cynical father and his daughter Tabitha.