Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) Hare was a trader and

Hare was a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles

When confronted with their lack of boundaries

the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries

what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground

This is brain hacking at its most exciting

Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) Hare was a trader andIn the Darwin Centre at Londons Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centres prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxbetter known as the Giant Squid. But Billys tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces