To the HermitageTo the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great, a woman whose influence could change the path of history . . . Malcolm Bradburys last novel is rich with his satirical

"Murder in the Vendee" finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small

Even if she wanted to reveal them now

warring people

and Rome to Marrakech

Mata Zyndu

her beloved Canberra

And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village

But here we are

Dieter Franck

She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831

embroidery and silver foil page edges

if they are to survive the coming devastation - for Concord is about to unleash the Wave again