Voyage to the End of the Room

Oceane, successful computer graphics designer and former dancer, likes to travel, but doesn't like to go out; in fact she never leaves home. Her solution is to bring the world to her South London flat using satellite, the internet and passing foreigners. Her lifestyle suits her until she starts getting letters from an ex - that's an ex who died ten years ago.Utilising the services of Audley, failed mercenary and proprietor of the Dun Waitlin debt collecting agency, Oceane has to start searching the world to understand her past. Tibor Fischer's new novel is Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island updated for the 21st century, weaving from the sex clubs of Barcelona, the battlefields of Yugoslavia to the deadly diving of Chuuk lagoon.VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE ROOM is Tibor Fischer on top form: a meditation on a random world, on what you can know, what evil looks like, why ketchup is important and why the Audit Commission rated Lambeth Council as one of the worst in the UK.