The Living Room; The Potting Shed; The Complaisant Lover, Carving a Statue; The Return of A J Raffles; The Great Jowett; Yes and No; For Whom the Bell Chimes

In 1938 Graham Greene went to Mexico to investigate the aftermath of the brutal anti?clerical purges. Travelling through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been closed or destroyed and the priests driven away or shot, he finds an oppressed and impoverished people having to worship in secret. His experiences in Mexico provided the setting and theme for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory.

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing against his death sentence, He has killed a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner, a policeman he thought was about to club his wife. Set against the political turmoil of Britain in the 1930s, a battle also rages to save Drover's life from the noose. The Assistant Commissioner, high?principled but overworked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding off fantasies; and Kay, pretty and promiscuous: they all have their part to play in the drama that unfolds around him as Drover sits in his cell.

`One of the best travel books this century' Independent

Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar west African republic founded for releasec slaves. Crossing the red?cla, terrain from Sierra Leone tc the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the fev areas of Africa untouched by colonisation. He finds that neither poverty, disease nor hunger seem to be able to quell the native spirit

Sheepshagger is the story of lanto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents. Sheepshagger is also the story of Ianto the seer, the visionary - the genius loci - who comprehends Nature with a Blakean intensity, at one with the world he lives in. But this novel is both these stories, both these people, and the character that emerges is one of the great creations of contemporary fiction.
Robbed of his ancestral home - a near-derelict hovel in the mountains of west Wales - Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekenders' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange imagination into unspeakable savagery -embodying our most primal fears of physical threat, a world beyond our control.
An extraordinary prose amalgam of Old Testament prophecy and demotic slang, of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy, Sheepshagger is written in a language charged to the highest level: lyrical and hieratic, saturated - like nature - in beauty and violence. And the spirit of its place, Ianto, at once both Caliban and Prospero, will hang in the memory of all who read his story like a devil or a god.