Who Is Maud Dixon?Florence Darrow wants to be a writer. Correction: Florence Darrow IS going to be a writer. Fired from her first job in publishing, she jumps at the chance to be assistant to the celebrated Maud Dixon, the anonymous bestselling novelist. The arrangement comes with conditions high secrecy and living in an isolated house in the countryside. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire the much promised second novel. Beach

Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby

Malcolm grew up in the shadow of the Homecoming Queen's death

'A brilliant read

A bird's egg

dragons have occupied a place in our imaginations

travelling by rickshaw around the small town with his driver Jamshed and staying in a mission house beside the local presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing

bassist and mainstay - evokes the spirit of the times and tells the story of one of the great live acts of rock history

entertain and delight

from food and drink through to language and literature

Not only did it visually define the decade

And what does it mean to be at its mercy

All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann