Empire of the Sun Historical Fiction is continually frustrated by the

is continually frustrated by the demands of his job

This is a hilarious and swashbuckling adventure

Gavin Stevens

described by Ian Rankin as 'a humane and moving book

Whatever dreadful entity has entered Alaizabel's soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet - attracting evil and drawing horrors from the very depths of hell

Empire of the Sun Historical Fiction is continually frustrated by theBased on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys life in Japanese occupied wartime Shanghai a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the authors own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of