Games at Twilight Paul Stewart Illustrated throughout by the inimitable

Illustrated throughout by the inimitable Quentin Blake

and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - to look after him

Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London

I was summoned to Dunfermline

a fatwa signals a different ideological faultline and a refugee seeks safety in Wychwood

Games at Twilight Paul Stewart Illustrated throughout by the inimitableSet in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life evoking the colour, sounds and white hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon; the American wife who, homesick for the verdant farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian