Metronome Sadie Jones and the story continues in

and the story continues in a land that is beset by enemies

her children

Arundhati Roys Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic

the Captain needs Petrocs help

Metronome Sadie Jones and the story continues inNot all that is hidden is lost. For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They've kept busy Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps but something is not right. Shipwrecks have begun washing up, and their supply drops have stopped. And on the day they're meant to be collected