Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press A boy stands on the

A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London

and set against the backdrop of imperial civil war and the growing threat from Romes enemies beyond its frontiers

When she sets out to hock her Jaguar and disappear without a trace

THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press A boy stands on theTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen