The Good Guy is a deeply compelling debut about love
It's 1880 and the atmosphere is volatile in the South African province of the Transvaal
but recognises a fellow military mind
She escapes a life of misery as a servant to the tyrannical ruling ferret family in Riftgard and sets off to find her way to the Abbey of Redwall
Deep in the Malayan jungle
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor The Good Guy is aTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen