Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press and Stone is

and Stone is

and set against the backdrop of imperial civil war and the growing threat from Romes enemies beyond its frontiers

War-weary from the army's recent campaign in Afghanistan

combining the intrigue of a classic murder mystery with a witty and compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age

for a reason

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon MacLehose Press and Stone isTom 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