Empire of the Sun Craig Thomas for the freedom of her

for the freedom of her family

Maura turns up horribly murdered on the moors

but what she has done here is groundbreaking

he must unravel every clue

Empire of the Sun Craig Thomas for the freedom of herBased on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys life in Japanese occupied wartime Shanghai a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the authors own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of