The Office of the Dead Horror Pursued by Blades of the

Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion

The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely

But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered a pitchfork driven through his chest Masons racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life

In this masterly debut novel

The Office of the Dead Horror Pursued by Blades of theThe final volume in the acclaimed Roth Trilogy, which, like an archaeological dig, strips away the layers of a psychopath's history: 'Taylor has established a sound reputation for writing tense, clammy novels that perceptively penetrate the human psyche' Marcel Berlins, The Times It's 1958, and the party's over for Wendy Appleyard: she finds herself penniless, jobless and on the brink of divorce. Who better to come to her rescue than her oldest