The Song of PentecostThe first book of a trilogy, and winner of the 1982 Whitbread Award. Pentecost leads his tribe of harvest mice from their polluted home to a new place of safety in the hills. Some unsavoury characters are encountered on the way, and the journey is not accomplished without hazard and loss.

A fourth book in the successful 'Pure Dead' series

John Lawrence

His work only interrupted when he becomes father to the son he has longed for for twenty years

Revolution's a bloodthirsty business

he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation

not a big drinker

she hears whispers about ghosts moving among those still living and a strange inn-keeper whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion

John Updike's new novel describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush - a large

and she's telling George that he's the only one who can help her

he really is

the psychotherapist

And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world