Xerxes Xu: 3 books

This year we remember the outbreak of the First World War, one hundred years ago. This ended a century of relative peace in Europe, a century of great technological progress in which the modern world was born and a century of huge social change in England. We easily recognise the world of 1914, with...

Trevor, a dull and disillusioned council officer, divorced and lonely, takes one last desperate gamble to salvage his life as he approaches retirement . On a quest to find a respectable wife, he finds himself, by accident, in the bar district of Angeles City. Appalled, he is determined to avoid the bar...

Bethany has cultivated an intimate fantasy since puberty, but when she starts a new job as a teaching assistant, her indistinct, fantasy partner, a raging troll, starts to take on some of the characteristics the new schoolmaster. Mr Hunter is "old school" in his appearance and methods, divorced,...