Thinner Macmillan When there is no choice

When there is no choice

he starts to think maybe he was right

Tom Stoppard's provocative new play spans the recent history of Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution - but from the double perspective of Prague

But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable

good cannot prevail

Thinner Macmillan When there is no choice'Thinner' the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what