Sailing Through China John Murray Our favourite clerical detective soon

Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy

Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured

but then it came into focus

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age

and very old

Sailing Through China John Murray Our favourite clerical detective soonSigned by Author Paul Theroux and Illustrator Patrick Procktor. Numbered Edition 83 150 Paul Theroux sailed down the Yangtze with a party of American millionaires. If this at times surprised the Chinese which it did both the idiosyncrasies of the company and the impressions of China itself provided rich material for the kind of perceptive, witty writing at which the writer excels. One hesitates, in a Chinese context, to describe the book as "sweet