Autor Magnus Mills
All of Magnus Mills' darkly comic and hugely entertaining stories are here collected in one book for the first time
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…
'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
'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror
Nerozlučná dvojka Tam a Richie, mladí Skotové, pracují pro firmu, jež staví ohrady pro dobytek. Podnik řídí podezřele ambiciozní a tvrdý Donald, jehož krédem je co největší efektivita práce. Krédem Tama a Richieho jsou "děvky, pivko a ročes", a z toho…
The third book from perhaps the most original comic novelist in England 'I live in a house built entirely from tin. For a long while I was quite content here, and remained convinced I would find no better place to be. Then one day a woman arrived at…