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About the Book

All of Magnus Mills' darkly comic and hugely entertaining stories are here collected in
one book for the first time.
‘He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a
seam that no one else touches on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills
ring to it that no other writer could produce' Independent In ‘Hark the Herald', a guest stays at an eerie guesthouse over Christmas without
encountering any other residents, despite constant reassurance from the landlord that
he would see them if only he arrived for breakfast slightly earlier; in ‘Only When the Sun
Shines Brightly' Aesop's fable about a competition between the Sun and the Wind to get
a man to take his coat off, gets a new look involving a railway arch, a builder and a piece
of plastic sheeting; in ‘Once in a Blue Moon' a man arrives home to find the family house
under siege, with his mother armed, dangerous and firing at the police with a shotgun,
and attempts to appease her with an invitation to seasonal hospitality; and in the title
story, rivalry between three cousins over a faulty toy gets out of hand as the cousins
unwittingly imitate the toy they're fighting over.
Magnus Mills has published two collections of stories - Only When the Sun Shines
Brightly and Once in a Blue Moon - which are collected here together with four new
stories for the first time to make a set of twelve.
Author publicity at the time of publication, including press interviews and
festival appearances.
Wide review coverage guaranteed.
Bloomsbury are repackaging and putting back into print Magnus Mills' backlist
to tie in with this new paperback release

About the Author

Magnus Mills is the author of five novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408809976
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 133 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 100 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1408809974
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2011
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 196 mm


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