Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor Before Fogg knows what's hit

Before Fogg knows what's hit him

Deep in the Malayan jungle

In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Stirling Bridge

It's 1880 and the atmosphere is volatile in the South African province of the Transvaal

but recognises a fellow military mind

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon Frank Beddor Before Fogg knows what's hitTom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966 soon after the premiere of his runaway success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is a dazzling fantasy set in modern London. The cast includes a penniless, dandified Malquist with a liveried coach, his Boswellian biographer, Moon, who frantically scribbles as a bomb ticks in his pocket, a couple of cowboys, a lion who's banned from the Ritz, an Irishman on a donkey claiming to be the Risen