Games at Twilight Paul Stewart Tolstoy and Conan Doyle

Tolstoy and Conan Doyle

That evening he arrives on Aries Island and encounters the writer of the letter - Reginald Mather

a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood

and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - to look after him

The Mirror Chronicles will take you into another world

Games at Twilight Paul Stewart Tolstoy and Conan DoyleSet in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life evoking the colour, sounds and white hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian