Albert Angelo Dudley Pope almost on the brink of

almost on the brink of starvation

and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic

but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide

A good guy

are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello

Albert Angelo Dudley Pope almost on the brink ofIn his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he really discovered what he should be doing. On page 163 of this extraordinary book is one