Corduroy and its tragic implications, the truth about group therapy and guacamole, the sinister rise in the number of quiche self-help groups, the resurgence of woad and distressing new developments in the field of marquetry are some of the subjects confronted in this book.[...]
Since narrowly failing to win the Nobel Prize in 2001, Glen Baxter disappeared to a remote hillside fort in eastern Holland to continue his research on vole classification. Some ten months later, he emerged from his stronghold and made his way to Soho Square where, after a brief scuffle, he was repo[...]