Black comedy, dealing with privatisation and the rise of the multinational megastate. Barmaid Jet Black possesses the only copy of a book by Julius Caesar, which may make her fortune or cost her life. The author is a journalist whose other publications include 'The Last Days'.

It is 1907 and the Blue Mountains are filled with the grand dreams of elsewhere. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant, falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who takes pictures of clouds, and succumbs to the 'madness of photography'. Their love turns the mountains sapphire blue. Set in a vast landscape haunted by sadness and the stories of romance which drift across it, 'The Service of Clouds' explores passion, illness and the secret desires men and women bring to the mountains.

'It is 1907 and the Blue Mountains are filled with the grand dreams of elsewhere. Eureka Jones, a young pharmacist's assistant with historical eyes, falls in love with Harry Kitchings, a man who takes pictures of clouds and succumbs to the 'madness of photography'. Their love turns the mountains sapphire blue. 'Set in a vast landscape haunted by sadness and the stories of romance which drift across it, The Service of Clouds combines the lushness of Marquez and the tenderness of Ondaatje to explore passion, illness, and the secret desires men and women bring to mountains.'

Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness. She has also experienced it first-hand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, she was affected by the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients. An Unquiet Mindis a memoir of enormous candour, courage, wit and wisdom, which examines manic depression from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and its cruel allure. First published fifteen years ago, it remains the definitive book on manic depression. 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' Oliver Sacks 'Affecting, honest, touching' Will Self