Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent Catherine Fisher the ornate Mahogany Room above

the ornate Mahogany Room above Burger King

The Frogmore Papers and Magma

In 1976 his novel Ikael Torass won the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize

Amit Chaudhuri

It combines a blistering action thriller set in the streets of Zurich and on the lakes and wooded slopes of Switzerland with a compulsive and convincing account of first century Romano-Judaean politics and the real reason for Pontius Pilate’s condemnation and execution of Christ

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent Catherine Fisher the ornate Mahogany Room aboveThe short sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 15, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as all the other students, and is prepared to give up everything he holds