The examinerThe mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been trouble from day one. From acclaimed artist Alyson who seems oddly overqualified, to hapless Patrick who can barely operate design software, and city boy Cameron who blusters his way through assignments. Not to mention Jem, who's a gifted young sculptor but cross her at your peril. The year long course is blighted by students setting fire to one another's artwork, a rumoured

In pursuing a career as a performer and a writer as a young girl

and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers

a breakthrough as significant in its way as evolution or quantum mechanics

In intimate stories of growing up and growing old

the past casts the present anew

collected for the first time in one deluxe slipcased edition

1970s: Our Jewish narrator embarks on a pilgrimage from Moscow to Leningrad to trace the footsteps of his literary hero

In late-eighteenth-century India

Germany lay in ruins

We meet characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of his drowned former seafellows and Nogood Boyo who dreams of nothing at all

through to his death in November 2020

witch and troll in the land