The Master and Margarita

Bulgakov spent more than ten years working on this novel knowing that it could never be published (the full text was not published in Moscow until 33 years after the author's death). This is a truly subversive novel. It is a dazzling construction of three different stories, told in different tones, overlapping and intersecting each other to create a dense, sometimes bewildering, fantasy. To summarize the plot: in Judea Pontius Pilate is faced with interrogating a Jewish rabbi while in Moscow the Devil has arrived, accompanied by a large black cat who proves a poor shot with an automatic... A marvellous, magical book. (Kirkus UK)