Deep in the Malayan jungle
but recognises a fellow military mind
ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it
Masha Glover returns home from exile
The Good Guy is a deeply compelling debut about love
Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor Deep in the Malayan jungleTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen