Collected VerseThis volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven hundred line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as his tribute to Ivor Novello or his counter attack on Graham Greene.

Ranulph is convinced that one of the the lawless inhabitants of the neighbouring island of St Nicholas is the culprit and prepares to attack

and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court

the Catholic Church

accusations of cowardice

We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper

Carpio has aid and influence on the outside

at the dawn of a troubled new era

' GILLY MACMILLAN

and his former lover the head of a most dangerous network of anti-global terrorists

Rachel and her younger brother are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world

and even his own past may not be all he thought it was

It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition