Where once the whim of the Hebrew God determined the fate of that tribe's greatest heroes, in Waxed Exceeding Mighty it is by the adulteries of seemingly everyone around him that Adam Athelstan is expelled from his garden, enslaved in the desert, enthroned in the jungle. Waxed Exceeding Mighty tells the epic story of Adam Athelstan, an angelic young man who grows and sells, and sings to, very rare flowers. When his cherished livelihood is crushed by a boat he has no choice but to take a job as a delivery driver for a florist. Mistakenly arrested as a foreign sex-worker, Adam is enslaved in...

Anais Spencer travels the world lying to men. As an imperilled Mossad agent, an international aid worker, a Venetian countess dispossessed-for seven years her first-class flights and hotel suites have been paid for by the hapless men upon whom she subsists. But Exquisite Hours is a novel about a beautiful young woman who is tired of wandering. Confessions of love are becoming chronic. Anais is too often having to resort to her last line of defence-the rufie. In a matter of days she flees from Hong Kong to New York to Missouri to Bangladesh to Bangkok, at last to Venice, where she falls in...