The Bath Fugues — Brian Castro

Vintage Castro, a wonderfully wrought performance, intrigue, romance, comedy, deception - and a melancholy sadness which courts, but never surrenders to. despair. It takes the form of three interwoven novellas, the first centred on an ageing forger, the second on a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector, the third on a mysteriously well connected doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland.