Child's Play

David Malouf

In an office there is a group of young people who work from morning till night, six days a week. Their way of life during office hours is dedicated and austere. The discipline they follow seems monastic. These people, who see themselves simply as "technologists", are in fact assassins....

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else."   The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...