Angelmaker Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1991) ""Art is about aesthetics

""Art is about aesthetics

A brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives

Migrant Worker

even for a super-prepared squirrel

Angelmaker Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1991) ""Art is about aestheticsJoe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady she's a former superspy. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch nemesis.