From the Book - 1st Picador ed.
'Bound with chains of flowers'
A note on Germany and German
From the land of gloomy forests
An alligator far from home
I'll have some green sauce with that
In search of a bit of sunshine
Other superiority complexes
A brief note on political structures
Where a million diamonds shine
Spires, turrets and towers
A birthplace and a death-house
The Golden City of the Faithful
The land where lemon blossom grows
The King of Sweden's horse
A surprise visit from an asteroid
Hourglasses and bird-eating spiders
'Music to Escort the Dead from this Life'
In the time of powdered wigs
Catholicism goes for broke
The descendants of Cyrus the Great
Drinking chocolate with ostriches
More competitive tomb-building
Chromatic fantasia and fugue
In the footsteps of Goethe
A glass pyramid filled with robin eggs
A surprise appearance by a sea cow
The grandeur and misery.of nationalism
A surprise trip to Mexico
Ruritania, Syldavia and their friends
The British-German divorce
