A State of Freedom - Signed & DatedWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century displacement and migration but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in

there is humanity

Jimmy Quickstint is the lucky man - falling haphazardly upon the skills of Diek Wustapha - a charmer - recently inhabited by magic and suddenly irresistible to girls

Alain Lausard and his heroic cavalry unit look on as Bonaparte stages the coup d'etat that dissolves the existing regime

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he and Kathy Kolla take on a seemingly unrelated case as camouflage

An unforgettable vision of the future of America

has many pet hates

Duffy's up to his neck in it

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They need someone to go undercover

So when the late author's family announces a contest to design his house