Angela Carter: Black Venus [1996] paperback PSYCH a New York intellectual with

a New York intellectual with a foot in Beirut

The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled

In June 1979

"-Guardian

The perfect introduction to Ireland's dramatic fight for sovereignty

Angela Carter: Black Venus [1996] paperback PSYCH a New York intellectual withExtraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his