On Chesil BeachIt is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

and he asked me to collaborate on the commission

author of The Final Strife

to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen

and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life

to unite the empire and stand against the gods themselves

richly beautiful

This collection of five classic

in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation

'Vivid with fury

desperately awaiting rescue

was loath to take the job of scouring guesthouses to find the little madam and her paramour

1964: A US diplomat caught in a clandestine love affair as the Cold War rages