The Restraint Of Beasts
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The Restraint Of Beasts
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-05-16
The Restraint Of Beasts written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Fiction categories.
'A heaving cauldron of black humour ... You'll never look at a stretch of high-tensile agricultural fencing in quite the same way ever again' Time Out 'Extremely unusual, finely crafted and funny' Observer 'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.' Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disastrous start involving a botched fence and an accidental murder, the three move to a damp caravan in Upper Bowland and soon find themselves in direct competition with the sinister Hall Brothers whose business enterprises seem to combine fencing, butchering and sausage-making... The Restraint of Beasts introduced readers to the now much-loved unique voice of Magnus Mills and his surreally comic world.
The Restraint Of Beasts
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Restraint Of Beasts written by Magnus Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Agricultural laborers categories.
The Restraint Of Beasts
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-11-11
The Restraint Of Beasts written by Magnus Mills and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-11 with Fiction categories.
Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that keep animals in and humans out—or maybe the other way around. Magnus Mills gives us a wiry novel of tensile strength that proves him a writer of ferocious talent. Eerie, resonant, spare yet rich in tones both hilarious and ominous—as if a work by Irvine Welsh, or perhaps Macbeth, had been adapted by the Coen brothers—his story has a finale so ingenious, insidious, and satisfying, it remains locked in the mind long after the last wire has been strung into place.
Restraint Of Beasts 27bk Bin
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Author : Mills Magnus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-06
Restraint Of Beasts 27bk Bin written by Mills Magnus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06 with categories.
Explorers Of The New Century
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-05
Explorers Of The New Century written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-05 with Fiction categories.
The brilliant new novel by the author of The Restraint of Beasts
The Maintenance Of Headway
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-05-19
The Maintenance Of Headway written by Magnus Mills and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Fiction categories.
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 point of view of a bus driver who's been charged to maintain a precise distance between himself and other buses--a directive that leads him to ignore the very passengers he's meant to serve. Witty, allegorical, and intelligent, this is a novel for all those who have ever run for a bus, only to have it pull away as they reach its doors. Showcasing all of Mills' strengths, it is the perfect reintroduction for American readers to an incomparable talent.
A Cruel Bird Came To The Nest And Looked In
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-08-01
A Cruel Bird Came To The Nest And Looked In written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Fiction categories.
Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o' clock, and the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the observatory telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot. But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor, who has gone abroad and communicates only by penny post, a sinister and unfamiliar enemy is getting closer and closer...A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar and disturbingly close to home. It is comic writing at its best - and it is Magnus Mills's most ambitious, enjoyable and rewarding novel to date.
Beasts Of No Nation
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Author : Uzodinma Iweala
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-09-10
Beasts Of No Nation written by Uzodinma Iweala and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Fiction categories.
Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. 'Run!' shouts his father when the rebels arrive. And Agu does run. Straight into the rebels' path. In a vivid, sparkling voice, Agu tells the story of what happens to him next. His story is shocking and painful, and completely unforgettable. Beasts of No Nation gives us an extraordinary portrait of the chaos and violence of war. It is a gripping and remarkable debut.
All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-01
All Quiet On The Orient Express written by Magnus Mills and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Magnus Mills’s first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a “comic wonder.” His second novel, All Quiet on the Orient Express, is an equally edgy blend of high-grade comedy and low-grade paranoia. With insidiously beguiling deadpan charm, Mills draws us again into the world of contract employment, this time in England’s Lake District. The novel’s narrator, an itinerant odd-jobber, is camping out, waiting for summer to end so that he can set off for some vague notion of the East . . . Turkey, Persia, overland to India. In the meantime, he agrees to do a small painting job for the owner of his campsite. One job leads to another. Before long, our hero is hopelessly and hilariously enmeshed in the off-season mysteries of the placid northern English community, grappling with dark forces beyond his power—some of which hang out at the local pub. To think it all began with a simple paint job . . .
In The Garden Of Beasts
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Author : Erik Larson
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2011-05-10
In The Garden Of Beasts written by Erik Larson and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-10 with History categories.
Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Göring and the expectedly charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.