In a Strange Land

<p>In a Strange Land is a collection of joined-up stories for these disjointed times for the exiled and the out-of-place. Have you ever felt you are not where you should be? Rome's favourite love poet does; he must now entertain a bunch of hairy barbarians. A blood-stained dictator finds himself making breakfast for his nine youngest children in a Novotel. On the Edgware Road a Syrian ophthalmologist tells his girlfriend about a sudden career change whilst on the other side of the city a stock-market darling explains how his sudden flight abroad is all part of the strategy. France's chic empress languishes in the damp Kent countryside - how did it come to this? In Beijing an Ulsterman's friendship with the Empress Dowager is not going to prevent him being massacred. On the Western front a Cumbrian gunner celebrates finally his imminent demobilization... </p><p></p><p>The action in this strange book stretches from Chislehurst to the Chagos Islands from Billericay to the Black Sea. What these men and women have in a common is one thing: they are all terribly far from home. And you?</p>