detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel
to explore a range of sports and environments - athletics
decide they have no choice but to follow
colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica
making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles
T J Gorton: ONLY THE DEAD W9 [2019] paperback CGIFT detective story and post-modern manifestoAs old Vartan sits reading mystical Persian poetry amongst the dust and disintegration of war torn Beirut, the fluted pillars of his decaying house wreathed in shadows, his thoughts wander back, inevitably, to another conflict, many years before Only the Dead is the story of Vartan Nakashian, a young Armenian from Aleppo caught in the midst of a world war that is proving catastrophic for his people. We follow his journey of love, espionage, tragedy,