Diary of a Bad YearAn eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He

where she's been recruiting the dead

And she's all but invisible to her best friend Trist

of Horn's stepdaughter

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the Prince of Wales and his spindoctors decide to cover up the facts and the murder is disguised as death by influenza

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widowed Artonis sides with Ptolemy

Through Francis

clanging new invention

these two other-worldly beings found themselves at the centre of a battle for a lost

I was twenty-two years old

Now something horrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system that honeycombs the ancient foundations of London