Mister PipYou cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty six days have passed since Matilda's last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the

So I took the job

and black jar he discovers while digging a badgers sett sparks the interest of the local vicar

- John Carey

'One of the Good Guys is definitely one of the good ones'

Oxford Regent Master William Falconer

sharp chapters and the description of her confinement is full of claustrophobic detail and menace' DAILY MAIL

His investigation will threaten his political prospects

only to be caught up in the violence and horror of the anti-draft riots

the country of their birth and the supposed location of the mysterious Winter diamond

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Richard: Malcolm Cousins has spent years in the single-minded pursuit of a priceless letter

Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition