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In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is still orderly and genteel. But when the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt, the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. 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FARRELL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Enjoyable on many different levels' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most outstanding novelists of his generation' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSingapore, 1939: Walter Blackett, ruthless rubber merchant, is head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. And his family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. No one suspects it - but this world is poised on the edge of the abyss. This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, \u003ci\u003eThe Singapore Grip\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A narrative of exceptional imagination and scope' \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fine piece of work, informative, funny tragic. One of those novels that present a whole world for the reader to inhabit' Margaret Drabble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'No writer has swallowed all of Singapore with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell' \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His brilliant of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow' Olivia Manning\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300466438517,"sku":"9781474613941","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474613941_3e072ac4-5550-4ef7-9f74-23697afc61de.jpg?v=1786020842"},{"product_id":"9781474613958","title":"The Hill Station","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'From the wide veranda you stepped out on to an acre of lawn, as smooth as glass; from the lawn you stepped on to nothing but fresh air.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A summer of the 1870s, the Himalayan resort of Simla, in colonial India. To the cool of the hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. 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