David Magill's life as a bookseller in Orange Grove, California was mostly sunshine, only occasionally clouded by frustration. But the balance flipped when he inherited a house and tea-shop back in "Kirkreeba", county Down. His American wife, Kay, also found the move life-changing - in more ways than one. Paradise Lost for one, and Paradise Regained for the other.

The Old Orange Tree is Philip Robinson's latest Ulster-Scots novel. It is written in his playful, post-modern style which explores the tensions of relationships - within marriage, with the 'Orange' tradition, and with the outer reaches of the Ulster-Scots diaspora at the other side of the world. Indeed, some of the most laid-back characters in this novel eventually do snap, such is the build-up of these tensions.