a missionary in Africa
David Golder is a page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth
Costa and Peroni find themselves embroiled in a clandestine and dangerous investigation into the shadowy world that lies beneath Venices sparkling fa
She's found solace only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King
Samuel is warned not to spend too much time there
Kingdom Of Shadows Sara Taylor a missionary in AfricaParis, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading