Poet in the Gutter Bodley Head This is the Cathedral of

This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people

a world at war

Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s

his pockets weighed down with lead whilst the current of the river below slowly tightens the noose around his neck

and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life

Poet in the Gutter Bodley Head This is the Cathedral ofSam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic. But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife. So suddenly Sam is a P. I. And the next thing he knows, he's on the track of a serial killer with the help of a street liver and an ex English teacher pensioner. . .