Jan/Feb Highlights 2010

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more, Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy herself. But... read more

On holiday in the Galapagos Islands, two things happen to zoologist Daniel Kennedy. When the small aircraft carrying him and Nancy, the mother of his little girl, crashes into the sea he is confronted with a stark Darwinian choice: should he save himself, or the woman he loves? And when he escapes the plane, who is the mysterious figure who guides Daniel away from certain death? When he and Nancy return home the fissures in their relationship soon show, as Daniel also faces the truth about the death of his great grandfather on the ... read more

Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. He won't reveal any of the details of his incarceration, insisting only that he is innocent of any crime. His return should be of interest to no-one.

Bertram Reiner, a charismatic and brilliant man diagnosed with a severe case of Battle Fatigue, is treated by Dr. Harrison, the distinguished and steadfast head of the hospital, who finds him the most challenging patient of his career. Their sessions leave Dr. Harrison slipping into a frightening, but also strangely enlivening twilight existence that renders the boundaries between sanity and insanity disquietingly blurred. When Dr. Harrison discovers that Bertram is having an affair with Matilda, the head nurse, who he himself has ... read more

Andalucia, 1938 - towards the end of the Spanish Civil War, a group of Republican soldiers kidnap Professor Pinzon and his grandson and hold them hostage in St Jaime's Cathedral together with a group of townspeople. Searching the Cathedral, they discover a crypt leading into a secret space, a medieval mosque directly underneath them, undisturbed for hundreds of years. The mosque holds a book, written in the eleventh century by Samuel the Jew. Reading it to his grandson, the Professor realises that Samuel's tale - a story of lifelon... read more