The Other Hoffmann Sister

For Ingrid Hoffmann the story of her sister's disappearance began in their first weeks in Southwest Africa, when she and Margarete went hand in hand to the top of the staircase to listen to their parents celebrating with the good Germans of Okahandja. Dusk was descending and candles had been lit in the hallway below. Intermittently insects flamed in them, emitting thick lines of black smoke...

Praise for The Spring of Kasper Meier

'Beguiling, unsettling and wonderfully atmospheric' Sarah Waters

'A decidedly accomplished first novel . . . where the keenness of observation and the rhythms of the prose call Graham Greene to mind' Allan Massie

'Ben Fergusson's grittily evocative novel [is] historically knowledgeable and piercing in its scrutiny of morally ambiguous characters, political murkiness and a world quivering with suspicion and jeopardy' Peter Kemp