Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press Castus must choose between honour

Castus must choose between honour and survival

THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE

Gordon Scott-Thompson

A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London

and Stone is

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press Castus must choose between honourTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen