‘Perhaps,’ J agreed cautiously with the man who would forever be an enemy to him, ‘but on the other hand, perhaps not.’
Kenny There’s nothing. Nothing. Do you hear me?
Dod I know.
Jed Perhaps Rick was right after all.
‘Yes, of course I will,’ Flick murmured happily as Jake pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her with fierce abandonment.
‘Well, well,’ Madame Astarti said. ‘Whoever would have thought that you were the murderer all along.’
Duke Thar-Vint mounted his steed Demaal and saluted farewell to his trusty steward Lart. He turned to the Lady Agaruitha riding beside him and said, ‘One chapter may have closed, but the fight for justice will go on for ever.’

And the winner of the Booker Prize for the year 2001 is . . . Andrea Garnett for her novel Anthea’s Anguish.