The TreesThere came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies,

while she's there

hard as nails and shunned by her colleagues

free to tell her story on her own terms

It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper

but the Club was formalised with a constitution and rules in1932

the taste of something entirely new

This is a hilarious and swashbuckling adventure

uncharacteristically

the value of suffering

Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab

How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post

and wonders if she is a way out of his dilemma