Geoffrey Robertson QC attended Epping Boys High School and Sydney Universitybefore leaving for Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1970. He is now rceognised as one of Britain's 'super silks' and as its pre-eminent civil rights advocate, having argued many landmark cases in the House of Lords, the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights. He is head on one of England's largest barristers' chambers and is a visiting professor at London University. For many years he devised and presented ABC television show 'Hypotheticals'

This is not my story. It is the story of Frances Montrose, an Australian woman with no formal mathematics training who carried across the world, in a borrowed suitcase bulging with a friend's balldresses, something no one knew about the discovery of a new number.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them.

Following the curves of the twentieth century, Fall on your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene of New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters.

A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety, the story moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger, from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Asia to hitch hiking across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver.