ARGONAUT BOOKS

Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain's most accomplished writers. Reviews 'No one inhabits character as intensely and subtly as Mars-Jones. Batlava Lake is therefore completely convincing as an everyman narrative - we know people exactly like Barry Ashton, and may even be exactly like him - but there's a larger truth here too, about clashes of cultures and history, that make this an important and highly recommended book.'  - Lee Child'Barry is a man with no friends and little sense of wonder, who's ...Read More