A Maggot Pocket Books poet and veteran Kevin Powers

poet and veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss

and triumphing on your own

But only a few days later a body is found in the boot of the Jaguar

Jimmie Johnston first became a Labour MP in Cumbria when there was a brave new post-war world to build

and as fundamental as our need to believe in something bigger than ourselves

A Maggot Pocket Books poet and veteran Kevin PowersIn his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as this compelling mystery swerves towards a starling vision at its centre.