The Maintenance of Headway
by:
Magnus Mills (author)
A novel that lets you 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.
A novel that lets you 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408800768 (1408800764)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Hilarious book! I never thought telling a story about the "art of bus driving" could be so entertaining.
This is a little gem of a book. A wryly humorous, gently satirical - and slightly ethereal - portrayal of the bus driver's art of timing their journeys so as to avoid being late by, say, having to stop to pick up too many passengers...and the ensuing cat-and-mouse game between them and the inspector...
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