Goddess in the Flesh.
To Kendrick she was a promiscuous harlot who stood in the way of his ambitions; to Mohan she was consort, mistress, and wife; to Smith she was a pagan goddess of sex; and to her people she was queen.
Possessed by many but...
This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height...
First published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters’ great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. Standing between E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and the acclaimed works of later writers such...
Against a backdrop of the middle years of the Great War, the characters in this book reach out to one another to find love and comfort during a time of trial and desolation. Thus the men and women of England survive, the battlefields of Flanders,...