One in the Lonely Planet Journeys Series
Editor: Michelle de Kretser

Love affairs on the road, passionate holiday romances, erotic encounters, lovers who meet only to part...

In Brief Encounters, a tourist in Peru falls for her handsome guide; backpackers check out who's on offer in the nightclubs of Prague; a couple trawl for adventure in a Mexican bathhouse; a beautiful Italian proposes marriage to the foreigner he's just met...

Here are twenty seductive stories for everyone who has dreamt of escape with that perfect stranger.

The Authors
Sean Condon, Karen Connelly, Peter Ho Davies, Pico Iyer, Alice Kaplan, Sarah Lloyd, Carole Maso, Mary Morris, Emily Perkins, Carol Queen, Bill Roorbach, Mona Simpson, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Maureen Stanton, Lucretia Stewart, Stanley Stewart, Paul Theroux, Christina Thompson, Tom Whalen, and Sara Wheeler.