A brand new novel from one of the world's most popular authors When his loving wife Betty plans a trip to Ireland for Fatty O'Leary's 40th birthday things go wrong almost immediately: the seats in economy class on the plane are too small; Irish bathroom furniture is not as commodious as he'd have li[...]
Following on from the great success of Trains and Lovers, a standalone novel which sold 20,000 hardbacks in the first six weeks of publication.[...]
It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under.[...]
Ten billion days - that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights - that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. N[...]
When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, the young Yuriko finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by a spirit from the Book of Heroes. She visits the magical Nameless Land, where [...]