Dreams of WaterSet during the 1980s civil war in Lebanon, Dreams of Water is complusively readable, deceptively simple and overwhelmingly moving. 'If you could tell me just one thing about yourself, what would it be?' She begins, 'I would say that I once lost a brother.' As a young man disappears, his family is left wondering, hoping, fearing for what may have become of him. It is only through his loss that they begin to truly understand the deep bond of love that

ex-movie star Don Elliot

uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:

I don't want any human friends

with only the company of his faithful dog

with no mother to care for them

but the book has vanished

and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel

the particular to the universal with exceptional flair and imagination

one running her fathers sweet shop and the other the apprentice at the family apothecary together they sell their goods on the frozen River Thames

The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves

brilliant writer

Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago