The Madonna of the Mountains - Signed, Lined and Dated1923 Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk. Her father has gone to find her a husband. He's taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask of wine no need to take water the world is full of water. There are no eligible men in this valley or the next one, and her father will not let her marry just anyone, and now, despite Maria's years, she is still healthy. Her betrothed

Set in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Georgia to wartime Leeds

Land is only a memory

Reinhart is a participant who nevertheless remains a spectator

Cass dreams of freedom

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars

IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group

But there are those who aim to come between Kata and her goal

Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination

and it is through that one peculiar link that she begins to find hidden riddles left by her mother

but finds her dead in her tiny room

devastating' - ABIGAIL DEAN

until the end of time