John Trethewey
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After an appalling education at Euterpe School (The House of Lunacy), Charles Baines moves to California, a successful director of television adverts. In 1974, at the height of its meteoric rise, The Temple of Sufferers and Joseph Priest arrive in San Francisco on their mission of converting souls. Baines is engaged to promote the Temple with a docu-publicity film of life and religion in the Temples agricultural project in the Amazon jungle. On arrival...
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Orchestral violinist Sebastian Martin is sacked by his orchestra for publicly ignoring the incompetent conductor, thus providing a brilliant solo. His life is invaded by a psychotic fabulist young actress who thrives on a diet of mendacity. Pyromaniacs like fire, kleptomaniacs like thieving . . . I live on lies. I cant live without acting. I simply cant. Id die if I didnt have a lie to live out. When Martin is accused of her murder, his life disintegrates...
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In this second novel of the Baines Saga trilogy, Baines and Judi Peake are now cruise ship musicians. As a scintillating, dazzling love affair develops, they encounter numerous eccentric and often bizarre passengers and events: a woman carrying a Koala bear, the own goal footballer who self-destructs in interview, a divorce announced during a wedding vow renewal ceremony, the Neapolitan Eternals, and countless others. On the luxury Faberg Express...
