{"product_id":"millroy-the-magician","title":"Millroy the Magician","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel \u003ci\u003eMillroy the Magician\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her hypnotic gaze, Millroy the Magician performs astonishing miracles. When she is later magicked into his trailer and Millroy promised to train her as his assistant, Jilly feels safe for the first time her her short life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Millroy is more than a mere stage-show magician. A vegetarian and health fanatic, a possessor of healing and hypnotic powers, Millroy is on a mission to change the eating habits og an entire nation. And through Jilly he has found the strength to preach his evangelical message. With Millroy's messianic fervour ever growing, Jilly begins to have doubts - but Millroy knows that without Jilly there will be no magic. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliantly done. Theroux's best book for a very long time' Jonathan Raban,\u003ci\u003e The Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fresh and unexpected...among Theroux's best' Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Magical' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, \u003ci\u003eMy Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lower River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Dead Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elephanta Suite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaint Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Consul's File\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Arsenal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic \u003ci\u003eThe Great Railway Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e are available from Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226910609752,"sku":"9780241950531","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241950531.jpg?v=1764817245","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/millroy-the-magician","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}