Books published by publisher Piccolo / Pan Books

Born in 1907, the author of Black Narcissus grew up in India and led a life as eventful as any of her bestselling fictions. Based on conversations with the writer and exclusive access to private letters, this highly readable biography traces the sources of Godden's novels in her colonial upbringing, her marriages, her religious conversion, and the poisoning mystery that forced her to leave India.

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror...

In a chance encounter at sea, Hector and his comrades slip from the clutches of a renowned swashbuckling mercenary captain. Hector and his wife Maria try desperately find one another. Hector's adventures and Maria's tenacity lead them toward Port Royal in Jamaica—known as the wickedest city on earth. Hector, accused of piracy, enters a world he had sworn to leave behind.