As If By MagicHamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with her magic of myths and mysticism along the hippy trail to the East. With a wry wit Angus Wilson brings into focus their separate adventures (Quixotic in Hamo's case, dreamlike in Alexandra's) until the tragic denouement when they meet in Goa.

millions of miles away

While Dougie seeks truth wherever he can find it

Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory

dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches

finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching

While My Eyes Were Closed

Before long

its scope and ambition is unparalleled

complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink

Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause

where one side tells a very different story from the other

The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh