The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer Games from the Dagenham strikes to

from the Dagenham strikes to Foot and Mouth

sweeping novel

things I want to eat

Finding herself in the grip of full-blown insomnia

The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer Games from the Dagenham strikes toIt's so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future anywhere but here. After half a century of travel, from Ethiopia to Tibet, from Belfast to Jerusalem, Pico Iyer asks himself what kind of paradise can ever be found in a world of unceasing conflict. In a spectacular journey, both inward and outward, Iyer roams from crowded mosques in Iran to a film studio in North Korea, from a holy mountain in Japan to the sometimes spooky emptiness