The Shadow of the WindHidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10 year old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one

who is in fact a donkey

and their romance

no matter how corrupt

Power can seduce as well as crush

Tutankhamun must steer the empire back from the brink of disaster and dissent to which his father Akhenaten's rule led the Two Lands of Egypt

However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leave

brilliant and rage-inducing' CAROLINE LEA

exciting and superbly readable

is bankrupt

fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail

Hiroshige and others

In the dying days of the Nineteenth Century