Mr. Sammler's PlanetMr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. "Sorry for all and sore at heart," he observes how

about three brothers whose lives are entwined with the intelligence service

Explosive fantasy set in a West-African world of magic and legend

author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

Deciding to go undercover on one of the old trawlers

but Alec is not

now roam the land sowing sedition and a return to the bloodshed that swept over the country during the Great Rebellion seems certain

I was given no power

affecting book' Guardian

enemy of all the Woosters hold dear

November 1917

Chief Judge of the Hall of Two Truths

in the pub owned by her family