Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) the author is descended from

the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries

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With his final breath

Kraken Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2001) the author is descended fromIn the Darwin Centre at Londons Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centres prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis duxbetter known as the Giant Squid. But Billys tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces