When sociopath Tom Ripley’s shady accomplice, Reeves Minot, asks for his help in committing a murder, Ripley suggests he approach a local art dealer, Jonathan Trevanny, instead. Trevanny insulted Ripley at a party so Ripley sets in motion a chain...
This was the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth, and went on to win the 1980 Man Booker Prize, beating Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers. It focuses upon the account of a trip to Australia, and takes the form of a journal written by...
SEED ON THE WIND is a revealing dramatization of Lora Winter, who has had many lovers but only one beloved. The story opens when the father of Lora’s youngest child first betrays that he is disturbed by an incident from her past that has arisen to...
Author's introduction:
In this final volume I have placed the rest of my stories the scene of which is set in Malaya. They were written long before the Second World War and I should tell the reader that the sort of life with which they...