Augustus The Strong POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS ‘DESPITE ITS CHILLING PREMISE

‘DESPITE ITS CHILLING PREMISE

along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu

A family returns to their hometown - and to the dark past that haunts them still - in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

Not after being jilted by her former betrothed

Augustus The Strong POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS ‘DESPITE ITS CHILLING PREMISEA riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of eighteenth century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the great what ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion. Alas, there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no