Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press War-weary from the army's recent

War-weary from the army's recent campaign in Afghanistan

A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London

combining the intrigue of a classic murder mystery with a witty and compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age

THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press War-weary from the army's recentTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen