Isabel Colegate: The Blackmailer [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good and one tree monster named

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' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)

Afghanistan and the snow-covered Balkans

A blistering portrait of a family on fire

Scythian archers and Persian marines

Isabel Colegate: The Blackmailer [2022] paperback Condition:Very Good and one tree monster namedThe glittering, sharp and sinister work of one of our most incisive and wickedly funny satirists; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'What we feel for each other is really a passion for power,' said Judith. 'We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.' Judith Lane, not quite beautiful but charmingly serious, is the young widow of the war hero Anthony Lane, and an editor at the successful if rather rakish publisher