Night of Fire

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<p><i>It began with a spark...</i></p><p>A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a photographer. Their landlord's relationship to them is both intimate and shadowy. At times he shares their obsessions and memories. He will also share their fate.</p><p>The passions of these individuals reach beyond the dying house that holds them. One recalls a lonely childhood, another the cremation grounds of India, another an African refugee camp. But will their stories be consumed forever by the flames?</p>

Autorenportrait

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in<i>Among the Russians</i>. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books:<i>Behind the Wall</i>(winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award),<i>The Lost Heart of Asia</i>,<i>In Siberia</i>(Prix Bouvier) and<i>Shadow of the Silk Road.</i>His most recent book is<i>To a Mountain in Tibet</i>(all available in Vintage). Colin Thubron was President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017.

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