When BOAC Flight 480 disappears from the radar screens over the Mediterranean, passengers and crew are soon posted missing. Three months later what seems to be the same aircraft reappears and lands on an Ionian holiday island. Gathered there are the world's media, agog to discover what has happened to the Boeing. There are, though, more questions than answers from the captain and crew of the vanished flight; and the passengers are more interested in getting their money back from BOAC than explaining where they have been. Join Mrs Tugendhat, SiSi, Mr Tulkinghorn, 'Senator' Welles, Boris, Mr Mao and Alexa the ginger cat to find out what really did happen to Flight 480, where the missing passengers have been, how they unearthed the low door in the wall that leads to the undiscovered country - and how they found their way back again. If any man thinks he can build and lead a world and resolves its problems he has yet to meet the stupendous force that is Mrs Tugendhat. Deliciously illustrated by breakout artist Decca Faire: it's a comedy, a beach read, a shiningly clever game of a book, a satire, an exuberant piece of magic realism - take your pick. And strap in for the ride.
Jim Ring first came to prominence as the author of Erskine Childers (John Murray 1996) which won the Marsh Prize for Biography. He is the author of five further books: How the English Made the Alps; (John Murray 2000), We ComeUnseen: the Untold Story of Britain's Cold War Submariners (John Murray 2001) which won the Mountbatten Prize; Riviera, (John Murray 2004) Storming the Eagle's Nest,(Faber& Faber 2013) and How the Navy Won the War (Seaforth2018) which was shortlisted for the Mountbatten Prize. We Come Unseen was the subject of a TV documentary to which Jim acted as script consultant. In 2005 he founded a film production company, specialising in documentaries. Incomers (ITV 2009) dramatises the challenges faced by immigrants in the UK. He has made a series of films about nuclear energy, including one about the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster. He lives in Norfolk with his family. With Mrs Tugendhat to the Undiscovered Country is his second novel.
