SCORPION GOD - Faber #

Three novellas The Scorpion God Clonk Clonk, Envoy Extraordinary. All three one set in ancient Rome and ancient Egypt, one in Egypt when the whole complicated structure of dynastic and Pharaonic rule was beginning to emerge, one in Africa more than 70,000 years ago, are tours de force distinguished by the imaginative strength and brillance which have earned for William Golding his unique place among contemporary writers. 'The writing is brilliant, so fluent and stylish that the stories read themselves like a dream' -William Cooper in the Daily Telegraph-