Silent Catastrophes Bio25 From the former director of

From the former director of GCHQ

Saddam Hussein's wife

René suffers extraordinary hardship

and lively

according to renowned psychologist Ed Tronick and paediatrician Claudia Gold

Silent Catastrophes Bio25 From the former director ofWe have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebalds case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing John Banville, Guardian From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him appearing for the first time in English As a German in self chosen exile from his country of