<b>Fifth Business</b> <br>Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.<p><b>The Manticore</b> <br>Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic,<i>THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY</i> provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.</p><p><b>World of Wonders</b> <br>This is the third novel in Davies's major work, <i>The Deptford Trilogy</i>. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in<i>The Fifth Business</i>, who was spirited away from his Canadian home by one of the members of a traveling side show, the Wanless World of Wonders.</p>