{"title":"Will Wiles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"way-inn-book-will-wiles-9780007545544","title":"The Way Inn","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE KITSCHIES             The Way Inn takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504169001233,"sku":"GOR006464351","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51720871543057,"sku":"GOR006626080","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53067842584849,"sku":"GOR006496924","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0007545541.jpg?v=1751433962"},{"product_id":"plume-book-will-wiles-9780008194444","title":"Plume","description":"Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs David Baddiel           Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity Warren Ellis           Its outstanding Mail on Sunday, Event Magazine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505151451409,"sku":"GOR010767556","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532975382801,"sku":"GOR010592297","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727609045265,"sku":"NGR9780008194444","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50422717481233,"sku":"GOR013944760","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50953825091857,"sku":"CIN0008194440VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53507085435153,"sku":"GOR012854275","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0008194440.jpg?v=1751004242"},{"product_id":"care-of-wooden-floors-book-will-wiles-9780007424436","title":"Care of Wooden Floors","description":"A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city. But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well. Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friendship between two men who don't know each other very well. It's about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532049129745,"sku":"GOR003568582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49666446295313,"sku":"GOR011177885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53222308708625,"sku":"GOR003759510","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0007424434.jpg?v=1751036749"},{"product_id":"care-of-wooden-floors-book-will-wiles-9780007424443","title":"Care of Wooden Floors","description":"A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553813340433,"sku":"GOR004116805","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50471044841745,"sku":"GOR010278743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514564219153,"sku":"GOR004241521","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52130783199505,"sku":"NLS9780007424443","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52449319813393,"sku":"GOR004181961","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0007424442.jpg?v=1751289924"},{"product_id":"way-inn-book-will-wiles-9780007545551","title":"The Way Inn","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE KITSCHIES LONGLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 'The Way Inn' takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare. The Way Inn is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend trade fairs, expos and conventions so you don't have to. This life of anonymised, budget travel would be hell for most, but it's a kind of paradise for Neil, who has turned his incognito professional life into a toxic personal philosophy. But Neil is about to change. In a brand new Way Inn in an airport hinterland, he meets a woman - a woman he has seen before in bizarre and unsettling circumstances. She hints at being in possession of an astonishing truth about this mundane world. And then she disappears. Fascinated, and with his professional life unravelling, Neil tries to find the woman again. In doing so he is drawn into the appalling secret that lurks behind the fake smiles and muzak of the hotel...","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577786802449,"sku":"GOR005796646","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49913490538769,"sku":"CIN000754555XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50136565940497,"sku":"CIN000754555XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108544475409,"sku":"GOR006609619","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/000754555X.jpg?v=1751423000"},{"product_id":"plume-book-will-wiles-9780008194413","title":"Plume","description":"Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs David Baddiel           Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity Warren Ellis           Its outstanding Mail on Sunday, Event Magazine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581358612753,"sku":"GOR009750194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50446947975441,"sku":"CIN0008194416VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50446953087249,"sku":"CIN0008194416G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50696977318161,"sku":"NGR9780008194413","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51426056241425,"sku":"GOR010139279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0008194416.jpg?v=1750810710"},{"product_id":"attention-au-parquet-book-will-wiles-9782867467547","title":"Attention au parquet!","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583555182865,"sku":"GOR013404373","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2867467543.jpg?v=1751064486"},{"product_id":"care-of-wooden-floors-book-will-wiles-9780547953564","title":"Care of Wooden Floors","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50149731270929,"sku":"CIN0547953569G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51891812729105,"sku":"CIN0547953569VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0547953569.jpg?v=1751230418"},{"product_id":"care-of-wooden-floors-cd-9781469207346","title":"Care of Wooden Floors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty debut novel about a house-sitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: feed the cats, don't touch the piano, and make sure nothing harms the priceless wooden floors. Content for the first time in ages, he accidentally spills some wine. Over the course of a week, both the apartment and the narrator's sanity fall apart in this original and weirdly addictive (\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e) novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the situation in and out of the sleek apartment spirals out of control, more of Oskar's notes appear, taking on an insistent--even sinister--tone. \u003ci\u003eCare of Wooden Floors\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for anyone who's ever bungled a house-sitting gig, or felt inferior to a perfectionist friend--that is to say, all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50498349793553,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50498349990161,"sku":"GOR013973364","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1469207346.jpg?v=1751019821"},{"product_id":"care-of-wooden-floors-a-novel-book-will-wiles-9781542047746","title":"Care of Wooden Floors: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty debut novel about a house-sitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: feed the cats, don't touch the piano, and make sure nothing harms the priceless wooden floors. Content for the first time in ages, he accidentally spills some wine. Over the course of a week, both the apartment and the narrator's sanity fall apart in this original and weirdly addictive (\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e) novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the situation in and out of the sleek apartment spirals out of control, more of Oskar's notes appear, taking on an insistent--even sinister--tone. \u003ci\u003eCare of Wooden Floors\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for anyone who's ever bungled a house-sitting gig, or felt inferior to a perfectionist friend--that is to say, all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50853816467729,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50853816926481,"sku":"CIN1542047749G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1542047749.jpg?v=1751407256"},{"product_id":"anechoic-chamber-book-will-wiles-9781784633288","title":"The Anechoic Chamber","description":"A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51505344413969,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51505344643345,"sku":"GOR014306863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51528609988881,"sku":"NGR9781784633288","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53110148694289,"sku":"GOR014746977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53112549376273,"sku":"GOR014748107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784633283.jpg?v=1750802009"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-will-wiles.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}