In the Heart of the CountryStifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination

Is that possible

seen and unseen

but his plans are thrown into disarray when Thoresby agrees to a visit from Joan

Cindy and Jack think they have tested their love to its limits and passed with flying colours

Chief Superintendent Stranges opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat

his negotiations with Parliament in tatters

Add a hyper-sensitive racehorse

Thats for damn sure

an intellectual who joins the Vichy government

author ofClytemnestra

Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known incompetence is put in charge of investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park

avenges it' Annie Garthwaite