A Landing on the SunEver since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm at Number Ten.

These three brilliant screenplays are uniquely accessible cameos of modern fiction as they move from the reassuring naturalism of our most familiar medium to the harrowing ambiguities of McEwan's uncompromising vision of reality

Mindfulness

set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity

Max Freeman's old life ended on a night that will haunt him for ever

but on a late-August night in Boston

it's clearly going to be one hell of a party

is doing all right for himself for a change

an apparently innocent Irish girl

There are faint black markings on the back of the dust jacket and a small tear at the base of its spine

explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder

The text is illustrated throughout in beautiful black and white wood-blocks by the highly acclaimed engraver

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