Smilla's Sense of SnowWhen caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor a neglected six year old boy, and possibly her only friend has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.

This is Britain as you've never seen it

Her schedule never changes

The Big Night Out

The beast within me tries to force its way to the surface

not his - recognising that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined

Also known as Tropical Issue

And a new champion has entered the fray

becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her--even when the police

and inconceivable immensity of the universe

exotic creatures and landscapes from the far reaches of the imagination and its own intriguing and turbulent history

he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan

When Edie Budd arrives at a shabby West London boarding house in October 1958