Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue,…
Once the peaceful forest-dwellers of Athshe were free to live in harmony and enjoy their worship of dreams. Then men colonized the planet to strip it of its timber resources. They enslaved the Athsheans, forced them to plunder the forests and destroyed their way of life. Until the day the despised ‘Creechies’ learned just how…
In Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins seventh and biggest novel, he brings on stage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created. Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up gravy, a cyberwhiz…
A Rare Benedictine – Ellis Peters The Advent of Brother Cadfael “Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured.” So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine – three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery, featuring the monastic…