A Dead Man In Deptford, Anthony Burgess'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk taking of writers It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.

Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him

It's been a year since a devastating storm ripped Liz's world apart

The expression

Set over the course of five decades

and personal satisfaction and success often depends heavily upon your ability to communicate clearly

one of the world’s most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self-discovery

with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon

and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor

hot-tempered Lulu rebelled

Hong Kong developed into one of the world's most spectacular and cosmopolitan metropoles after a century and a half of British imperial rule

and take down racist structures and systems

written in a way that can help everyone else do the same