Octopussy and the Living Daylights Kazuo Ishiguro Building on the great success

Building on the great success achieved by Gillian Cross's previous novel Calling a Dead Man Gillian Cross is one of the UK's top children's authors

including the enigmatic eldest

And is a Rome ruled by a woman who despises Vespasian any safer than a prison cell

Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be 'the complete man'

bravery and betrayal

Octopussy and the Living Daylights Kazuo Ishiguro Building on the great successThe British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it's a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberg egg, or a retired major in Jamaica with a treacherous secret, it is down to James Bond to neutralize the threat. In these stories the dirty world of international espionage tests Bonds skills to the extreme.