Magnus Mills

• Sep-1998
• / Suspense
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CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF 1998 BY THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES" AND WINNER OF ENGLAND'S MCKITTERICK PRICE This award-winning literary tour de force, shortlisted for both the Whitbread and the Booker prizes, tells the captivating tale of three men...

• Aug-1999
• / Literary
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One of Aesop's Fables tells the story of a wager between the sun and the wind to see which can succeed in removing a traveller's heavy coat. The wind tries first, but however hard it blows it fails to make any progress because the traveller simply bu...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The Restraint of Beasts -- hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a "comic wonder" and shortlisted for the prestigious Booker and Whitbread Prizes -- comes a novel that proves Magnus Mills to be the master of pitch-black humor. Told with insi...

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of BeastsIn a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of hi...

• Dec-2002
• / General Fiction
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From Magnus Mills, the acknowledged master of the working-class dystopic parable -- a genre he practically invented -- a new work of comic geniusThe whole idea is simple yet so perfect: men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans...

• Mar-2006
• / Action Adventure
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“A masterfully realized comic novel . . . like something out of Gulliver’s Travels by way of Franz Kafka and P. G. Wodehouse” (Library Journal).   Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration -- closely resembling th...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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From the Booker-shortlisted author acclaimed as having "no literary precedent" (Independent) comes a gently absurd examination of the systems that trap and frustrate us daily. Fans of dry humor will enjoy this tale of mishap and folly, told from the ...

• Aug-2016
• / Literary
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The Great Field lies in the bend of a broad, meandering river. Bounded on three sides by water, on the fourth side it dwindles gradually into wilderness. A handful of tents are scattered far and wide across its immensity. Their flags flutter in the w...

• Jul-2017
• / Literary
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A hilarious and surreal exploration of power, fanaticism, and really, really good records. "I remained convinced that my original theory was correct: there were some records that were never heard on planet Earth unless I (or James) happened to be ...

• Apr-2020
• / Historical
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• Dec-2020
• / General Fiction
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There's no doubt that the president was a man of extraordinary ability. His decision to purchase the British Isles was widely acclaimed as an act of genius. It solved our financial difficulties at a stroke. Even so, he could never claim to understand...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
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They were probably quite surprised on the Wednesday afternoon when the clearances began. All along the coast, thousands of sunbathers were rounded up without warning and taken away in vans.In the follow-up to The Trouble with Sunbathers, will the pre...

• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2023
• / General Fiction
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In a country not far from here the people are thoroughly disgruntled. Unfortunately, nobody knows the reason for their disgruntlement. They're seemingly beyond help but then some visitors arrive from overseas in the hope of finding a cure....

• / General Fiction
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'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 Hera...