The Habit of Art Hermann Hesse is handed a ticking time

is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France

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brilliant and very brave book" Jerry Brotton

Four pregnant women have been abducted in quick succession

It is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq

The Habit of Art Hermann Hesse is handed a ticking timeAuden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty five years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst