Rat Jelly & Other Poems: 1963-78This volume of selected and new poems brings together the best of Michael Ondaatje, whom Joyce Carol Oates has called 'one of the most original and consistently exciting of North American poets'.

And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home

late in life

his body truncated

when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse

From there

Stevenssharp insights and ingenious detection uncover the underlying motives

As Bruno begins to discover a pattern in these killings

who lives in the only house on the island – Turnglass House – believes he is being poisoned

Impatient to see action

which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism

but the prey of sinister and paranormal forces

The House Of The Paladin is the tale of a lovely medieval castle and its chatelaine