a cruel bird came to the nest and looked in
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all quiet on the orient express
Author_Magnus Mills
award winning
booker prize
british
bus driver
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funny dark
gothic
hilarious humour
literary fiction
maintenance of headway
public transport
restraint of beasts
satire
scheme for full employment
screwtop thompson
shortlisted nominated
surreal
system
three to see the king
Product details
- ISBN 9781408800768
- Weight: 138g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'It's a matter of procedure,' I explained. 'Strictly for the record. You don't get sacked from this job unless you did what Thompson did'. 'What did he do then'? 'We never mention it'. Enter the bizarre world of the bus driver, a strange but all too familiar universe in which 'the timetable' and 'the maintenance of headway' are sacred, but where the routes can change with the click of an inspector's fingers. This brilliant short novel is a gently absurd examination of the British bus system and its peculiarities, where the demands of the hapless passengers are virtually ignored and where it is fine to be a little bit late but utterly unforgivable to be a moment early.
Magnus Mills is the author of five novels and two collections of stories, 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.
