Title: William Henry Harrison Publishers: Times Books

The first few pages of Eli Gottlieb's third novel, The Face Thief, are frightfully good: a woman, later identified as Margot, falls down the stairs, life not so much flashing before her eyes as spooling out in slow motion, mingling with her bone-splintering reality and things she cannot be sure are really there.

Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist and single mother, has enough drama in her life. At least the discovery of six skeletons buried along Britain's Norfolk coastline present her with a professional challenge for a change.

The following is another in a series of articles prepared by the Jamaica China Friendship Association.

Ring of roses

Up yesterday, feeling love all around

You do not acknowledge my advances

Elizabeth Taylor was many things: a talented actress whose first star turn came at age 12 in National Velvet; an international celebrity whose eight husbands included her Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton twice; ...