Greg Billington: 4 books

In 1990 at the height of the Trujillo massacres, war correspondent Sebastian Smith flees Colombia with an unbearable secret – no longer the silent witness, he is an accessory to murder. Recovering from the recent expulsion of the equally bloody Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh is the prefect place for Smith...

When he is betrayed by his close friend and his marriage fails, violin bow maker Charles Willoughby flees the city to set up his workshop in a remote Northumberland village, seeking solace and tranquillity in his childhood interest in the natural world. Willoughby doesn’t know what to make of the...

This is the story of a most musical boy called Jem, who becomes a most unlikely and ferocious soldier. He works farms in the rugged Wairarapa hills of New Zealand, near to the coast that is the graveyard of many ships; devoted to the sounds he elicits from his cherished flute; and imagining all the...

Max Pipe is tormented by an unconscious desire to create art – exuberant art filled with life, unicorns and sex – but the bromidic advice of his father and noted biologist Rudi Pipe weigh heavily. “Never, smallish Pipe, was there a place at the board table for a mime.” So Pipe of Martino &...