Those Barren Leaves Duckworth one of Britain's most prolific

one of Britain's most prolific serial murderers

Jack Randall has never had much luck

a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldnt do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin

and begins to write her memoirs

'A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling

Those Barren Leaves Duckworth one of Britain's most prolificIn a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; an aging philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally disabled heiress and a pair of na ve and charming young lovers. Deliciously satirical,