Andrew Muir: 7 books

Sex, affairs, adventure, a sky rocking career, culinary and other worldly pleasures – or a holy vocation? Time: shortly after World War II. Location: Everywhere. -- "The Last Mistress" is the story of Richard Brown, who leaves an English boarding school at the end of World War II to find his way...

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridge’s part in Shakespeare appreciation through the centuries. Against this background the book celebrates the annual open-air Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. Playing yearly to around 25,000 people of...

When Rome fell in 473AD, Constantinople became the capital of the remnants of the Roman Empire. Virtually every province west of Greece had fallen to the Goths or barbarians and in north Africa to the Visigoths. This historical novel tells the story of Theodora, one time actress or vedette who became...

One minute I'm in The Elk watching the footie the next minute I'm at the beach with a Polish supermodel. Fucking come on. Lena meets Robbie. Girl meets Boy. Head over heels. Eyes only for each other. They don't speak the same language, but they both know the language of love, and surely that's...

Weighed down by prohibitive maintenance costs of their 43 cathedrals and beset by declining revenues from a dwindling membership, the Church of England is close to bankruptcy. With no more properties to sell and no shareholders to bail them out, the Archbishop of Canterbury is at his wit's end....

They say the weirdest things happen when you are on acid… I was with my philosopher friend and her ambitious biochemist brother when I first took LSD. As Danny and Bugs vented their frustration at how out of touch the world had become, I realised reality really was stranger than fiction. My second...

Take a walk down Birmingham's main street, at the heart of England, and experience 400 years of historical fiction, fantasy, time travel, crime and comedy. An unlikely threesome re-enact Jaws on the Brindley Place canals; a Polish immigrant escaping the 1980 Solidarity crackdown tries to find...