'It has the pace and dynamism of a thriller, the metaphysical curiosity of the best science fiction and some judiciously-planted charges of wry humour' The Herald'A dazzling novel' Edmund Gordon, award-winning authorAnd how to tell what the best things were? Well, that was easy: the best things were the ones with the most people looking at them.Alastair Buchanan has a comfortable ...

Paul and Mikey are on the run, apparently from the press surrounding their house after Mikey’s release from prison. His crime - child murder, committed when he was a boy. As they travel, they move from one disturbing scenario to the next, eventually involving themselves with a bizarre religious cult. The power between the brothers begins to shift, and we realise there is more to their history than Paul has allowed us to know…

Ogni vecchia dimora inglese nasconde tra le sue mura qualche disegno, un dipinto o magari un’incantevole, polverosa illustrazione d’epoca co-loniale in cui è possibile contemplare l’intrepido esploratore che si avventura nel fitto della giungla minacciosa, oppure una gigantesca tigre del Bengala nell’atto di avventarsi con le fauci spalancate sui portatori atterriti, o un elefante imbizzarrito che devasta il campo di spedizione. Nel mettere in ordine qualche tempo fa la casa della nonna do...