Magnus Mills Ordine dei libri

We'd only travelled a few miles when I started wondering how I could rid myself of the three sunbathers. This might sound churlish but actually I felt I owed them no debt of gratitude.

They were probably quite surprised on the Wednesday afternoon when the clearances began. All along the coast, thousands of sunbathers were rounded up without warning and taken away in vans.In the follow-up to The Trouble with Sunbathers, will the president ever stop interfering? Or will it be his son-in-law?

Tales of Muffled Oars is English History with all the nasty bits left out.

There's no doubt that the president was a man of extraordinary ability. His decision to purchase the British Isles was widely acclaimed as an act of genius. It solved our financial difficulties at a stroke. Even so, he could never claim to understand the British people. Not properly.

Mills uses his blokes in the back of a pub to tell a massively ambitious story . A story that could be read as a disguised retelling of the Russian revolution, or the Reformation, or the Sunni-Shia schism, or any great human falling out. As soon as you form any kind of us, Mills suggests, a them will form in response. In this, The Forensic Records Society is like Animal Farm but with blokes for pigs, and much better songs Guardian

A joyous outing from the writer whose work the New York Times compares to "a Monty Python sketch adapted by Kafka." Shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmith Prize The Great Field lies in the bend of a broad, meandering river. Bounded on three sides by water, on the fourth side it dwindles gradually into wilderness. A handful of tents are scattered far and wide across its immensity. Their flags flutter in the warm breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. But more and more people are setting up camp in the lush pastures, and with each new arrival, life becomes a little more complicated. And when a large and disciplined group arrives from across the river, emotions run so high that even a surplus of milk pudding can't soothe ruffled feathers. Change is coming; change that threatens the delicate balance of power in the Great Field. Magnus Mills's new novel takes its name from the site of a 1520 meeting, between Henry VIII and Francis I of France, to improve relations between the countries as the Treaty of London deteriorated. It allegorically suggests a number of historical encounters on British soil: the coming of the Vikings, the coming of the Romans. But The Field of the Cloth of Gold sits firmly outside of time, a skillful and surreal fable dealing with ideas of ownership, empire, immigration, charisma, diplomacy, and bureaucracy. It cements Magnus Mills's status as one of the most original and beloved novelists writing today.

Eine grüne Wiese, ein malerischer Fluss, ein Zelt, schönstes Sommerwetter – das Paradies auf Erden. Wären da nicht die Anderen, erst einer, dann zwei, dann eine schöne Frau, ein stolzer Mann, eine Legion, gefolgt von wüsten Horden. Und unter ihnen Homo Faber, Anarchos, Hippies und ein Messias. Der Erzähler, ein Jedermann und unverbindlicher Menschenfreund, berichtet von den vielen kleinen Schritten ins Verhängnis und unserem unauslöschbaren Drang zur Zusammenrottung und Abgrenzung. Eine skurrile, komische und eigensinnige Menschheitssaga über den Weg vom Paradies in die Hölle. Und was, wenn diese grüne Wiese unsere Welt wäre?

A bus driver has been charged to maintain a precise distance between himself and other buses. The directive leads him to ignore the very passengers he's meant to serve.

In a lush meadow, bounded by dense forest and a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between the occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for change, change that threatens The Great Field.