A Cruel Madness by Colin Thubron and an accident with a

and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing

its development across the seventeenth century and its influence on later poets and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester

rooting out corruption or defeating a great enemy

plucked from youth and spirited away

Based on thirty years of research into the technological

A Cruel Madness by Colin Thubron and an accident with aWhen a part time worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting, and from the memory of their past affair there unfolds a labyrinth which darkens from romantic obsession to feelings deeper and more disturbing. Colin Thubron creates a world of passion, delusion, and reality mingling with unreality, pervaded by an all consuming sense of longing and of loss.