The Godstone and the BlackymorAn enjoyable memoir of a a trip in Ireland.

Enthralled by her stories

It's quite possible that we are all just a few provocations away from cold-blooded murder' - ELIZABETH HAYNES

Built on rich seams of myth and metaphor

Bech presides over the American literary scene

convince his bosses and stop the killing before his adversary gets too close to home

enigmatic wife of a feared dictator stands trial for her late husband's crimes against the people

and make sensible compromises

Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin

that year of so many momentous events which just happens also to be the year of Lance's birth

a Frenchman who

Like Cervantes' classic

as she wonders who killed her and why