The Anti-Death LeagueBrian Leonard, a Monty Python of secret agents, meets James Churchill, a young officer, at an English army base where preparations are under way for Operation Apollo. To complicate matters, Churchill has gone round the bend for a parole from the mental ward. Thrown amongst these loose cannons is a widowed beauty who practices "conspicuous polyandry," an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving chaplain, and a charming alcoholic. "Amis delights in

so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man

THE CONJUROR'S BIRD is the perfect mixture of detection

for the old cathedral was built without foundations

Watch your back

She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive

In the busy market square

"A fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The GuardianLondon

As Baldwin and Simon begin a double investigation

She was lucky to be with a man like him

When a body is discovered in a Glasgow canal

Tom is aware only of a burning need to find his brother

to set their son on the altar of sacrifice