All Quiet on the Orient Express
by:
Magnus Mills (author)
Innocence, experience and comedy in Cumbria, from 'a British writer to be treasured and revered' Independent on Sunday As the wet lakeland fells grow misty and the holiday season draws to a close! As the tourists trickle away from the campsite, along with the sunshine, and the hot water, and...
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Innocence, experience and comedy in Cumbria, from 'a British writer to be treasured and revered' Independent on Sunday As the wet lakeland fells grow misty and the holiday season draws to a close! As the tourists trickle away from the campsite, along with the sunshine, and the hot water, and the last of the good beer! A man accidentally spills a tin of green paint, and thereby condemns himself to death.
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ISBN:
9780007177400 (0007177402)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Fantastic sense of something awful about to happen, an atmosphere of the protagonist somehow not fully connecting with anyone in an area strange to him, kept me reading this book. And, although nothing particularly bad happens, it is a book which I will always remember. It is quite unique and, I thi...
It's hard to compare Mills to anyone but himself - possibly Rick Moody? Very much a marmite author - I love Mills' twisted take on the world. Hapless hero finds himself handyman to the boss from a Daliesque version of Hell. Very, very funny in the way painful things sometimes are.
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