A few weeks earlier, as a lax but family-conscious Hindu, he had been in Bedford with his parents celebrating what was still a spiritual festival during which Hindus welcomed the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, with small lamps and religious ritual. Today in Britain Christmas was little more than an ...
The Pitlochry team had left, none of them impressed by his delay in spilling Margaret Pargiter’s secret. He feared he might soon be back in uniform. The previous evening he had met a friend from schooldays, Olly Norman, who was doing well in the Foreign Office. Years ago, he had introduced Olly t...
‘They take it so long then explode.’ He pulled several rashers of bacon from the grill, arranged them on plates and served the eggs. ‘Eat up,’ he commanded. Flick smiled wanly. Her appetite was poor and the quantity of food on her plate was putting her off. ‘You mean Traynor suddenly had enough?’...