Magnus Mills

reissuedIt is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon...

'It's a matter of procedure,' I explained. 'Strictly for the record. You don't get sacked from this job unless you did what Thompson did.' 'What did he do then?' 'We never mention it.' In Magnus Mills' brilliant short novel he transports us into the bizarre world of the bus drivers who take us...

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 postmen can deliver in daylight regardless of how that affects everyone else, and the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the...