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From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of &i;>Harvest &/i>and &i;>Quarantine&/i>, a spellbinding fable about love, fear and where authority lies.

From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest, a novel about love and grief, music and myth, and about the way society treats its least fortunate.

So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and camels any more, of being Miri without shame or hesitation, of letting drop her headscarf for a change so that nothing intervened between her and the sky. Five travellers venture into the Judean wilderness in search of redemption. Instead, amidst the barren rocks, they are met by a dangerous man, Musa, and fall under his dark influence. As the unforgiving days and bitter nights erode their resolve, it becomes clear that one among them will go further than the rest: a fervent, solitary figure, he denies the temptations of his neighbours, and, ultimately, the needs of his own body

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Quarantine.

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...

From the masterful author of Being Dead and Quarantine, a hypnotic novel about what it means to be a hero.

`A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders' stalls' Sunday Times

The stoneworkers remain oblivious to the winds of change in the outside world--until a storyteller returns with a strange, angry woman whose death foretells the coming of metal and the end of stone.

A literary feast of sheer imagination and indulgence, from the Booker- shortlisted author of Quarantine