Life & Times of Michael K Giles Kristian so it was back to

so it was back to old-fashioned legwork

and asked to work on a commission for the house she is building on the desolate Smugglers' Coast of North Yorkshire

Simon of Kinnerton is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his son is disabled cursed

Penelope must piece together a tale of war

and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic

Life & Times of Michael K Giles Kristian so it was back toFirst published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.