Two good quotes isn’t bad for any novel, especially one blessedly short.
Accusations of mismanagement and incompetence brought out a strain of patriotism in his countrymen like nothing else.
and
The underside of the log began to glow, and then it took fire again and pulsed around the ends with an energy that seemed desperate almost. Light flickered over the man slumbered in the deep chair, falling over his legs and chest, making him seem for a moment, with his face in shadow and the human likeness obscured, like some beast of the jungle, barred and striped, at rest in its lair.
Barry Unsworth, Land of Marvels
Oltre Mare 