Temporary Kings
£9.99Taking place in the years 1958-59, the opening scenes of this book are at a cultural conference in Venice, which Nicholas Jenkins is attending. The intrigues of Widmerpool, now a life peer come to something of a climax.
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
£10.99It is the mid 1960s and many of the characters who have taken part in this vast panorama of modern life are either old or dead. Obseved by Nicholas Jenkins, several of those who remain have begun to hear secret harmonies.
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Books Do Furnish a Room
£10.99After the war Nicholas Jenkins began work on a biography of the 17th century writer Robert Burton. A job on the side brings about contact with persons both known and unknown.
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The Military Philosophers
£9.99Nicholas Jenkins has been posted to a War Office liaison section to work with the Allied armies. Absurdities coincide with horrors for the characters of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’, especially in the shadowy secret services.
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The Soldier’s Art
£10.99Taking place during the period between the occupation of Paris by the Germans in June 1940, and their invasion of Russia in the same month a year later, ‘The Soldier’s Art’ further traces the lives of those in ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’.