A House for Mr BiswasA House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipauls unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the wrong way and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently

General Ziethen of the Prussian army

egged on by a vitriolic newspaper columnist

Heart-wrenching and life-affirming

But when there's a clutch of coppers

But can she carve out her own place in the legends in a world made for men

But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row

mesmerising ALAN CUMMING

Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new

which had vanished long ago

so it is up to Pongo and Missis to rescue their pups - with the help of all the dogs in England

What dark secret was she hiding

more than sixty years later