The Rings Of Saturn Christina Koning Allison & Busby Limited FF|FFJ Hardback 2023

The Rings Of Saturn Christina Koning Allison & Busby Limited FF|FFJ Hardback 2023What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, 'The Rings of Saturn' is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at which a particularly unpleasant

When the body of a young woman is found by the side of a quiet country road

FlaviÞres is drawn into an obsessive cat-and-mouse chase across Paris

but they're about to be drawn back into the struggle - Jon by his restless curiosity and Suzi by the reappearance of DC Noble

that asks: if you had the power between life and death

Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground

hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets

Helen is sent by her mother Agnes to buy a loaf from the bakery at the end of the street

the group faces a test of their wits - and their trust

But will the police listen to the truth in time

It's not the lies that kill you

When the younger brother