Night of Fire by Colin Thubron

Night of Fire by Colin Thubron'It began with a spark.'A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood. Their landlords relationship to them is both intimate and shadowy. At times he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate. In Night of Fire the passions and obsessions of these unquiet lives reach beyond the dying house that holds them. Ranging from an African

economic and cultural antecedents and dynamics in relation to its external environment

'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience

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undoubtedly

much before these developments

she discovers unexpected truths about her family - and even about herself

and fighting for his life against forces he can barely discern

hugely informative

this book explains what a Buddhist really is

the dragon in Beowulf

This tranquil graveyard now houses the mortal remains of a hundred or so individuals from two centuries – mountaineers