The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time

once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood

While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings Agamemnon and Menelaus

Could it be saved

This is both the story of Jake's lap of the UK and also of his journey to finding peace within himself and with the world around him

a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power

and let the oven do the work

On the heels of Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse comes Armstrong: A Mouse on the Moon-where dreams are determined only by the size of your imagination

She favours luxury and living it up: eating

but also the world as she knows it

the US won the Vietnam War

touch it and live in it every day

Most importantly for Angela