Screwtop Thompson by Magnus Mills
All of the Booker-shortlisted Magnus Mills' darkly comic and hugely entertaining short stories are here collected in one book for the first time ‘Imagine The Office crossed with Brave New World ... hilarious' Express ‘He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other writer could produce' Independent In ‘Hark the Herald', a guest stays at an eerie guesthouse over Christmas without encountering any other residents, despite constant reassurance from the landlord that he would see them if only he arrived for breakfast slightly earlier; in ‘Only When the Sun Shines Brightly' Aesop's fable about a competition between the Sun and the Wind to get a man to take his coat off, gets a new look involving a railway arch, a builder and a piece of plastic sheeting. In ‘Once in a Blue Moon' a man arrives home to find the family house under siege, with his mother armed, dangerous and firing at the police with a shotgun, and attempts to appease her with an invitation to seasonal hospitality; and in the title story, rivalry between three cousins over a faulty toy gets out of hand as the cousins unwittingly imitate the toy they're fighting over. Magnus Mills has published two collections of stories - Only When the Sun Shines Brightly and Once in a Blue Moon - which are collected here for the first time, along with three new stories.
PRAISE FOR MAGNUS MILLS * Independent *
‘Imagine The Office crossed with Brave New World.. hilarious' * Daily Express *
'So refreshingly readable it's astounding' * New Statesman *
‘Like P.G. Wodehouse, Mills has created his own deeply English world, rich in comic possibilities' * Independent *
‘Imagine The Office crossed with Brave New World.. hilarious' * Daily Express *
'So refreshingly readable it's astounding' * New Statesman *
‘Like P.G. Wodehouse, Mills has created his own deeply English world, rich in comic possibilities' * Independent *
Magnus Mills is the author of five novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781408809976 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408809974 |
| Title | Screwtop Thompson |
| Author | Magnus Mills |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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