Pickering's blend of ancient and modern, fact and fable, in this comic tale of a 21-year old ex-classical scholar who becomes entwined in the world of Cold War espionage features ritual murders, whores and bestial secret servicemen. Other novels by P...
Jack, a petty criminal seeking meaning, truth, and guidance for his life, embarks on a search for Charlie Peace, a two-thousand-year-old storyteller who had been a source of wisdom and insight for Jack during his Yorkshire childhood...
Now a famous classical pianist, S. Miles-Harcourt, aka Smiles, arrives in Congo to play a Peace and Reconciliation Concert, and to make amends with his former schoolteacher and mentor, Lyman Andrew, who has buried himself in the war-torn jungle. Smil...