Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor A young policewoman

A young policewoman

In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Stirling Bridge

Deep in the Malayan jungle

And no one can stop it

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor A young policewomanTom 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