CShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who as his name suggests surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very first experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all

The jacket has 3 small tears towards the top of the spine and is worn on the other corners

If he dies

he volunteers to join a dangerous mission to Venice to rescue a diplomat fleeing over the Alps in the wake of Buonaparte's victories

capable and excellent at her job

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Haunted by memories of their childhood

Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew

And two women who should never have met are connected forever

A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus

the schoolboy and the philosopher

The author's depiction of the murderer's unravelling mind

and pitfalled through and through