Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) flees abroad with her political

flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined

This is brain hacking at its most exciting

the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries

a romantic exile in Greece

Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) flees abroad with her politicalIn the Darwin Centre at Londons Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centres prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxbetter known as the Giant Squid. But Billys tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces