Everything UnderWords are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasnt seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though almost a lifetime ago and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretels isolation and throws up

She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined

Caesar as a member of a corps of black soldiers that will be one of the most decorated Loyalist units of the war

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passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon

When a depressed

As he tries to unmask the killer

witty and empathetic

strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy

we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land

Charles Cumming and Robert Harris - this is a gripping

lawless quest of her own

Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in a current