Sea of Poppies - Signed, Lined & DatedAt the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As

He is sent home from hospital to die

Lauren keeps seeing the woman and is convinced her babies are in danger

At the heart of this story is the unforgettable

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaids Tale

and an unlikely alliance between strangers

When Cambridge undergraduate Nick falls in love with an American student during a summer holiday in California

waiting for spring to spark the war to life again

her family flee the gossips and the ghosts

April 1940

But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness

As the magpie

A brilliant thriller from the No