Empire of the SunBased on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys life in Japanese occupied wartime Shanghai a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the authors own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of

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this book is unforgettable’ TASHA SURI

An ordinary

savage wilderness

the two Dalmatian parents know the scary Cruella De Vil has had something to do with it

Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on her Yorkshire pudding and has mysterious ways of dealing with homesickness

delivered in a heart-shaped box

and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite

during WWII

the particular to the universal with exceptional flair and imagination

Ryan treats her better than Jake ever has

he and Cathaline - his freind and mentor - track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quater of London