A Goddess in the StonesNorman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher caste gangsters. From these violent happenings, he heads down the west coast of Bengal and into the highlands of Orissa to testify to the life of the

if anything

You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls

But some things never change

On the furthest ridge behind them

is its King

In desperation

In this book

but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho

Now back in England

with terrifying access to the most lethal drug in existence

with Jnasson's atmospheric sense of place

It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties