Lawrence Carter

The Second World War is over and Japan sets about rebuilding her shattered cities. Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, looks back over his life and assesses a career that has coincided with the rise of Japanese militarism. Once the objects of high renown, his paintings now appear fatally flawed by propagandist concerns.

Dominic Gallagher, film star and reformed alcoholic finds himself at the centre of an intrigue that involves fraud, treachery and murder.

Twin brothers are born in the wilds of Natal in the 1870s. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them apart, but a continent is awakening and on the horizon dawns the promise of fortune, adventure and love.