Canal Dreams by Iain Banks

Canal Dreams by Iain BanksHisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello CANAL DREAMS is a novel of deceptive simplicity and dark, original

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even greater remorse would overwhelm him…Sometimes in life

Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale

From the time he learnt to move pieces on a chessboard as a six-year-old

The last to try

The book is available in 41 languages

challenge and immerse players

a young man struggling with family

The unseen assailant steals her bags and disappears

Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others

But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz - who champions the talents of others