Raising SteamIts all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office. A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with tflat cap and tsliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds including a few particularly keen young men armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear and suddenly its a matter of national importance that the trains run on time. Moist does not enjoy hard work. His . . .

burning paper flowers in front of her shrine and its Yoruba gods

and his growing respect for the stubborn leadership of Alfred

matriarchal

His restlessness is legendary

and the shy Alex

Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs

her partner

the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner

The Blasphemer is a story about conditional love

Looming over them all is a celebrated and reclusive artist whose masterworks are priceless

Flyte is brilliantly funny

giving us more extraordinary insight into the world ofHis Dark Materials