[b]Jim Williams[/b] first hit the news when his early novels had the uncanny knack of coming true. [i]The Hitler Diaries[/i] was published nine months before the celebrated forgery came out in 1983. [i]Farewell to Russia[/i] dealt with a nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union months before the Chernobyl disaster. [i]Lara's Child[/i], his sequel to [i]Doctor Zhivago[/i], provoked an international literary scandal and led to his being a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Festival. [i]Scherzo[/i], a witty and elegant mystery set in eighteenth century Venice, was nominated for the Booker Prize. All of his fiction has been published internationally. [i]Tango in Madeira[/i] is his eleventh novel.