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Galloway, Steven The Cellist of SarajevoGardam, JaneSnipers in the hills overlook half theintersections in Sarajevo. In the streetsbelow, two inhabitants, Dragan andKenan, trapped, like all their neighbours,in the city, strive to go about theirdaily lives, trying to second guess whenand where the next bullet will strike.One man, a cellist, defies this game of‘Sarajevo Roulette’; in memory of thecity’s dead, for 22 consecutive days, hebecomes a sitting target as he playsAlbinoni’s ‘Adagio’ in the street outsidehis building. Unbeknown to him, oneyoung woman watches his performanceswith unflinching attention. Tense andheart-wrenching to its last page, “TheCellist of Sarajevo” shows how life undersiege creates agonizing and almostimpossible choices.Old FilthFilth was an international lawyer witha practice in the Far East. Now, onlythe oldest QCs can remember that hisnickname stood for Failed In London TryHong Kong. This novel tells his story, fromhis birth in what was then Malaya tothe extremities of his old age. Brilliantlyconstructed, going backwards andforwards in time, yet constantly workingtowards the secret at its core.29