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Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
At a wedding party in Cornwall in the summer of 1981, Chris Napier is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whom he has not seen since his father, Michael Lanyon, was hanged for the murder of Chris’s great-uncle, Joshua Carnoweth, in 1947. It was the inheritance of old Joshua’s fortune that led the then humble Napier family to their present state of affluence. When Nicky subsequently hangs himself, Chris sets out on a journey into his own and others’ memories of the tragic events of 34 years before. Driven on by Nicky’s firm belief in his father’s innocence, he begins to doubt the offical version of those events and to question the conduct of several members of his own family. Then other present-day mysteries begin to dog his footsteps into the past and soon his search for the truth becomes a desperate struggle for his own survival.
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Clive James’s Unreliable Memoirs
I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me.’
In the first instalment of Clive James’s memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney.
First published 1980 by Jonathan Cape.
